Abietar

Spanish foundry. In 2011, they published the Victorian family Abietar (+Negra). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Active Sphere
[Ronnie Dela Cruz]

Active Sphere is a foundry in Valenzuela City, The Philippines. It is run by Ronnie Dela Cruz (b. 1963, Manila), a part-time freelance web and graphic designer.

Their fonts include the geometric sans display families Kayla Sans (2008), Kathleen Sans and Serif (2008), Leenyx (2008), Jekatep, Sean Henrich ATF (2009), and Yarikha (2008). Stephanie (2008) and Zirphy (2008) are rounded geometric display fonts, and Kamaru Sans (2008) is an experimental sans face. Mecatoque (2008) is Victorian but pretends to be futuristic, and Sayonachi (2008) is a curly children's book face.

Stanix (2011) and Tsikot (2011) are fat techno faces. Maxine Sans (2011) is a basic humanistic sans family. Tamika (2011) is a gorgeous oriental style brush face. Anino (2011) is a grunge family. Anikka (2011) is a monoline sans family with an extremely thin hairline on one end. Filipina (2011) is an organic sans family. Bradford (2011) is a squarish family. Gretta (2011) is a minimalist sans with missing strokes. Danrex (2011) is Ronnie's contribution to the "fat counterless" craze. Merina (2011) is a fat piano key face. Sailfin is a stylish monoline organic sans family.

Typefaces from 2012: the sturdy geometric display font Zafra, and the fat squarish techno family Mossimo. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Adam Grason

Adam Grason (aka Zadok44) is the Kansas City, MO-based designer of the Victorian ornamental families Blair (2012) and Patmos (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Affolter und Gschwind AG
[Werner Affolter]

Werner Affolter ran a phototype and printing company in Basel, Switzerland, called Affolter und Gschwind AG, Fotosatz&Reprotechnik. In 1981, Affolter published an extensive catalog entitled Letterama that showed over one thousand alphabets. Few of those were original, so I suspect he acted as a vendor of sorts, but at least a couple seemed original, or were claimed to be original or exclusive: Guigoz, Moby Dick.

Some examples of the types shown, in alphabetical order: Antique Wood MP363 (art nouveau), Antique Wood MP 364 (oriental simulation face) [the Antique Wood series is quite extensive, and is just numbered], B+T Classic (roman), Bernhard Fett, Beton Fine Line (typewriter), Burko (avant garde family), fonts starting with G, Gaston Fett (a squarish gothic face also called Gipsy), Gaston Halbfett (also called Grassy), Gemini Computer, Germanic Sans (more avant garde and Lubalin-style glyphs), Hollandse Mediaeval, Hollywood (a 3d decorative family), typefaces starting with K, Lineamarca (slabby), Linear (avant garde, geometric monoline), Melen (experimental, geometric), Meola Bookman swash (decorative), Metro (art nouveau, after the Metroploitaine font), Moraine (squarish), the Old Foundry sub-collection [another mysterious numbered collection; examples include some uncials, and some more art nouveau faces, some Victorian ornamental faces (F260 through F262), more art nouveau (MP418 through MP420) and blackletter faces (MP421)], Pierrot (psychedelic, groovy), Phydian (one of many Western style ornamental faces0, Ronda, Roulette, Roulette Schattiert (=Rajah) (more Western fare), Ruby (shaded caps), Runic Small (condensed), Rustic (wood log look), typefaces starting with S, Spengler Gothik, St. Clair (ornamental), Zither (calligraphic script). [Google] [More]  ⦿

akaType
[James Milligan]

akaType is James Milligan's outfit. Fonts made by him include akaPosse (2005), akaArcade (2003), akaDylan (2005, comic book style set of three faces), akaDora (2005, script), akaFrivolity (2002), akaHoggle (2002), akaIndic (2002), akaPotsley (2002, Victorian). Some of these are also available in OpenType. Alternate URL. Another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Albian Gagica

Digital artist in Kosova, Albania. Behance link. Most historians believe that the Albanians are descendants of the Indo-German tribesmen called the Illyrians who were in the Western Balkans ca. 1000bc. Illyria (2011) is a curly monoline sans script that permeates Victorian perfumes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Sperl

German designer (aka laynecom) at FontStruct in 2008 of band, blokk_2, maiden, substance, Fette Serif (fat, octagonal), Runde Pixelig, Velvet, Thin Sans, Constr, Clear Serif, Blokk. Added in 2009: Russisch Brot, Block Out (3d face, +Filled1, + Filled2), Bold Stencil Sans, Script Pixelig, Dorky Corners Sans, Haus der Kunst (inspired by the building in München by that name), Fraktur Test, Fette Sans (nice), Emilia, Runde Pixelig (pixel script). Creations in 2010: Fraktur Test, The Plot (octagonal, architectural), 80s Metal Band, Fieldwork Font (pixel), Black Metal, I slabbed the Seriff, Play (curly face). Creations in 2011: Obvious Stencil (Bauhaus, or piano key), Supercali (a psychedelic font inspired by the cover for A.R. Kane's "I"), Manuale (with straight slabs), Graphite (fat and rounded), Graphite 2, Hinterland Italic (quaint Victorian face). Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandra Leopoldovna Gophmann

Russian designer of typefaces who collaborates with Ivan Zeifert and specializes in revivals, cyrillizations and beautiful digitizations, some of them done with Anatole Gophmann. There have been complaints about her practice of borrowing fonts from type designers without asking. One typophile writes: I have cracked open fonts she claims as hers, Bolero, Bickham and others, she has copied and pasted glyphs, copyright data, added Cyrillic and changed the copyright string. As an example, Angelica is a copy of Alejandro Paul's Miss Fajardose. Alejandro has drawn the numerals in his font in 2004 to accompany the letters found in an old catalog of alphabets. There is no other source of the numerals, and Angelica has them. Michael Clark writes: I initiated a battle with the illustrious Alexandra "Bitch" from Russia who has renamed Pouty (FontBureau) and copyrighted [it as] Bolero. She and her partner Anatoly shithead. Available on Fonts101.com for anyone who wants it free. The ass's site, Jagdesh, is in Pakistan and we cannot touch him. 260+ viewings and 140+ downloads. Let's see that is 1400$ I will never see! Others have complained as well about her practice of taking and extending fonts without permission. Anyway, her "fonts" are:

• A: Adine Kirnberg (2005, the Cyrillic version), Advokat Modern (2008), Afisha, Afisha Cap, Agatha-Modern, AlexandraScript, Amadeus, American Text C, American-Retro (2008), Ametist [based on Lorelei] (2008), AmpirDeco, Andantino-script (2008), Andantinoscript, Anfisa Grotesk (2008), Angelica, Annabelle, Antikvar (2008), Antikvar Shadow (2008), Antonella Script (2008), Antonella Script X (2008), Antract, Aquarelle, Ariadnascript, Ariston-Normal, Arkadia (2008), Arkhive, Arlekino, Art-Decoretta (2008), Art-Decorina (2008), Art-Metropol, Art-Nouveau Initial (2008), Art-Nouveau1895, Art-Nouveau1895-Contour, Art-Nouveau1900, Art-Nouveau1910, Art-Victorian (2008), ArtNouveau-Bistro, ArtNouveau-Cafe, Artemis Deco (2008), Artemon (2008, psychedelic), Arthur Gothic, Artist-Modern, Astoria Deco (2008), Atlas Deco A (2008), Atlas Deco B (2008), Auction, Augusta One, Augusta Two, AvalonMedium.
• B: Ball-Point Pen, Bankir-Retro, Barocco Floral Initial (2008), Barocco Initial (2008), Baron Munchausen, Batik Deco (2008), Belukha, BelukhaCapital, BickhamScriptAltFour, BickhamScriptAltOne, BickhamScriptAltThree, BickhamScriptAltTwo, BickhamScriptOne, BickhamScriptThree, BickhamScriptTwo, Birusa (2008), Bodoni Initials (2008), Boleroscript, Bonapart-Modern, Briolin, Brokgauz&Efron, Brokgauz&Efron-Italic.
• C: Caberne, Cafe Paris C, Calligraph-Medium, Campanella (2008), Capitol Deco (2008), Carmen, Carolina, Casanova (art nouveau) (2008), Cassandra, Castileo (2008), Certificate of Birth (2008), Chocogirl (2008), ClassicDecor (ornaments), Classica-One (2008), Classica-Two (2008), Cleopatra (2008), Conkordia (2008), Cordeballet, Corinthia, Corleone, CorleoneDue.
• D: Dama Bubey (grunge) (2008), Debut (art deco in the style of Broadway) (2008), Decadance Cursiv (2007), Decor Initial (2009: decorative caps, a Cyrillic extension of a face by Pampa Type), Decor Line (2008), DeutschGothic (blackletter), Donaldina (2008).
• E: Edisson (blackletter), Egipet-Bold, Ekaterina Velikaya One (2005), Ekaterina Velikaya Two (2005), English Rose (2008), EnglishScript, EseninscriptOne, EseninscriptTwo, Evgenia Deco (2008).
• F: Fairy Tale (2008), Fantasia (2008), Fata Morgana, Favorit, Favorit Grotesk (2008), Flamingo (2008), Fortuna Gothic FlorishC (2009, blackletter).
• G: Geisha (2006), Gertruda Victoriana (2008), Globus (2006), Gloriascript, Goudy Decor InitialC (2009, ornamental caps), Goudy Decor ShodwnC, Goudy OrnateC, Graceful Mazurka (2008).
• H: HeatherScriptOne, HeatherScriptTwo, HeinrichText, Hogarth Script (2005).
• I: Isabella-Decor, Italy-A (2008), Italy-B (2008), Izis One (monoline sans), Izis Two.
• K: Kabriolet Decor (2009), Kamelia (2009, Victorian face), Kareta-A (2007), Kareta-B (2008), KarnacOne, KarnacTwo, Konkord-Retro, Konrad-Modern (2008), Konstrukto-Deco (2008) (2008), Kot Leopold (2008), Kumparsita.
• L: Lastochka (2008), Le Grand, Leokadia Deco (2008), Lombardia, Lombardina One, Lombardina Two, Lombardina-Initial-One (2008), Lombardina-Initial-Two (2008), Lombardina-One-Roman (2008), Lombardina-Two (2008), Ludvig van Beethoveen (sic) (2005).
• M: Majestic X-2, Majestic-, MajesticX, Malahit-Bold, Margaritascript, Marianna, MarkizdeSadscript, MartaDecor One and Two, MartaDecorTwo, Martina Script C, Masquerade (2008), Matilda, Matreshka, Maya (2008), Medieval English, Melange Nouveau (2008), Menuetscript, Metro Modern, Metro Retro B (2008), Metro Retro C (2008), Metro-Retro A (2008), ModernistNouveau, ModernistOne, ModernistThree, ModernistTwo, ModernoNouveau, ModernoOne, ModernoThree, ModernoTwo, Modestina (Victorian), Mon Amour Two (both jointly copyrighted with David Rakovsky) (2008), Mon Amoure One (2008), Monte-Carlo, Monte-Kristo, Monti-Decor A B, Moonlight, Moonstone, Moonstone Stars, Morpheus, Moulin Rouge (2008).
• N: Nocturne (2005), Nostalgia (2008).
• O: Old Comedy, OldBoutique, Olietta-script-BoldItalic (2008), Olietta-script-Lyrica-BoldItalic (2008), Olietta-script-Poesia-BoldItalic (2008), Orpheus, Ouverture Script (2004, calligraphic).
• P: Parisian, Picaresque One, Picaresque-Two (2008), Pilotka (2008), Plimouth, Port-Arthur (2008), Poste Retro (2008), Postmodern One, Postmodern Two, Promenad Deco (2008), Prospect-Deco (2008), Pudelina (2008), Pudelinka (2008).
• R: Red Sunset, Regina Kursiv (2008), Renaldo Modern, Rochester, RochesterLine, RockletterSimple, RockletterTransparent, Romantica Script, Romashka Deco (2008), Romashulka (2008), Rondo Ancient One (2008), Rondo Ancient Two (2008), Rondo Calligraphic (2008), Rondo Twin (2008), Rosa Marena, Rosalia (2008), RosamundaOne-Normal, RosamundaTwo, Rotterdam, Rubius, Rurintania (sic) (2005).
• S: Samba DecorC (2006), San Remo, Sapphire C (2008), Scriptorama (a clone of Scriptina), Secession-Afisha, Sevilla Decor X, SevillaDecor, Sladkoeshka (2008), Stereovolna (2008), Stereovolna Black (2008), Stradivari Script (2008), Stradivari Script [the Latin part copyrighted by Grosse Pointe Group] (2008), Stravinski Deco (2008).
• T: Taverna, Teddy Bear [Latin by House Industries] (2008), Telegraph, TelegraphLine, TelegraphShodwn, TelegraphSmall, Terpsichora (2008, psychedelic), Theater (2009, Victorian), Theater Afisha, Topaz, Trafaret Kit (2008), Trafaret Kit Hatched (2008), Trafaret Kit Transparent (stencil) (2008), Traktir-Modern, Traktir-Modern3-D, Traktir-ModernContour, Turandot.
• V: Valentina (2008), Variete (2008), VenskiSadTwo-Medium, VenskisadOne-Medium, Vera Crouz, VeronaGothic (blackletter), VeronaGothicFlourishe (blackletter), Veronica-script-One (2008), Veronica-script-Two (2008), Victorian-Gothic-One (2007), Victorian-Gothic-Two (2008), Victoriana, Vizit (2010, engraved face).
• W: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (2005), Wonderland (2008), Wonderland Star (2008).
• Z: ZanerianTwo, Zeferino Two (2004), Zeferino Three (2005), Zeferino One (2004).

Amy Greenan

Co-designer with Christina Torre and Richard Kegler of P22 Victorian Gothic (2000), which was based on a typeface called Atlanta. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew Hart

Andrew Hart is a Corona-based American digital photographer (b. 1988), who runs a small free font archive. Another archive of his. Dafont link. Another URL. Yet another URL. And still another one. And another one. And one more. His later fonts refer to SickCapital.Com.

His own fonts include Dirt2 Copperbolt (2012, grungy copperplate), Truskey (2011, grunge), Sick Capital Kingston (2011), Full Moon On (2011),Grafitik Riot (2011, graffiti face), Electric Panda (2011), Last Draft (2011, grunge typewriter), CaliforniabyDirt2 (2010), JusticebyDirt2 (2010), SC Gum Kids (2010), SC Tinas Baby Shower (2010), Little Ryan (2010, handwriting), Sick Capital Vice (2010), Star Avenue (2009), Cute Tattoo (2009), DuerTWO (2009), Dirt2Stickler (2009), Ithornët (2009, grungy blackletter), NoXWay (2009, graffiti grunge), Skulls and Splatters (2009), Hacjiuza (2009, hand-drawn blackletter; +Dirty), Popstar Autograph (2009, comic book style script), The Quickest Shift (2009, curly script), DuerTwoo (2009, bloody horror font), Malgecito (2009, grunge), Ithornët (2009, grungy medieval pirate font), Little Bliss (2009), Loyal Fame (2009, curly script), Angelic War (2009, grunge), Soulstalker (2009, grungy blackletter), Kings of Pacifica (2009, ransom note font), GanixApec (2009), GoodPeace (2009), KatyBerry (2009), OffTheDrugs (2009), ThinFranq (2009), WILDAFRICA (2009, African-theme multiline face), St. Andrew (2009, a spray type font), Hawaii Lover (2009, grunge calligraphic script), Aristotle Punk (2009, grunge), Juicy Hunt (2009, grunge), Dead Hardy (2009, Victorian), Kate Perry (2009, fifties script), Kate Berry (2009, fifties script), Vloderstone (2009, hairline slab serif), Good Peace, Off The Drugs, Thin Franq (2009, hairline), Ganix Apec (2009, sans), Jailbox1 (2009, grunge), Blast Beat (2008), Ghosttown-BC (2008, Western style), Dead Secretary (2008, grunge), DIRT2-DEATH (2008, grunge), Robot Head (2008), Alpaca 54 (2007, grunge), Hawaii Killer (2007, Coca Cola grunge), Splinter2 (2007, grunge based on Franklin Gothic), Everyday Ghost (2007, grunge), Plague Death (2006, grunge), SEXtalk69 (2007), Screamz1 (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antony Zonne

Russian designer of the Victorian face Chelyabinsk Trucker (2009, copyright RockSquare). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aridi Computer Graphics: Digitizations by Dick Pape
[Dick Pape]

Aridi Computer Graphics is known for its initial caps and ornamental typefaces and ornaments. In 2008, Dick Pape digitized these typefaces: AridiArabesqueDesignsI, AridiArabesqueDesignsIIIa, AridiArabesqueDesignsIIIb, AridiArabesqueDesignsIIa, AridiArabesqueDesignsIIb, AridiArabesqueDesignsIV, AridiArabesqueFrames, AridiArabesqueMasterpieces, AridiArabesqueMasterpiecesA, AridiArabesqueMasterpiecesB, AridiArabesqueOrnaments, AridiArabicCalligraphyArt, AridiArtNouveauA, AridiArtNouveauB, AridiBusinessGraphics, AridiCalligraphiaA, AridiCalligraphiaB, AridiCalligraphicaI, AridiCalligraphicaII, AridiCrests&Ribbons, AridiElaborateFrames, AridiInitials1Blister, AridiInitials1Gothic, AridiInitials1Nabel, AridiInitials1Regal, AridiInitials1Spring, AridiInitials1Wind, AridiInitials2Digital, AridiInitials2LubnaHollow, AridiInitials2NapoliHollow, AridiInitials2Romantic, AridiInitials2Royal, AridiInitials2Stone, AridiInitials3Cherubs, AridiInitials3Fantasia, AridiInitials3FantasiaBold, AridiInitials3Masselle, AridiInitials3Rosette, AridiInitials3RosetteRevers, AridiInitials3Victoriana, AridiInitials3Vincente, AridiInitials4Cinderella, AridiInitials4Federal, AridiInitials4Ginger, AridiInitials4Marquesa, AridiInitials4Renaissance, AridiInitials4Tuscani, AridiOldWorldFramesA, AridiOldWorldFramesB, AridiOldWorldFramesC, AridiOldWorldFramesD, AridiOldWorldFramesE, AridiOldWorldFramesF, AridiOldWorldFramesG, AridiOldWorldOrnamentsA, AridiOldWorldOrnamentsB, AridiOrnamentalDesigns, AridiOrnamentalFrames, AridiPrinterOrnamentsD, AridiPrinterOrnamentsSingle, AridiPrinterOrnamentshA, AridiPrinterOrnamentshB, AridiPrinterOrnamentshC, AridiPrinterOrnamentsvA, AridiPrinterOrnamentsvB, AridiRibbons&Banners. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arnold Hoepker

Graphic designer in San Jose, Costa Rica, who made the free round Victorian informal text face Pavo Royal (2011), Zaguatica (2012, a free masculine sans), the free angular and very readable face Lorena (2011), and the free multiline face Telefono (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Art nouveau faces: FontShop selection 2010

FontShop compiled its list of art nouveau typefaces from its stable of fonts: P22 Mucha (Christina Torre), Karolla OT (Paratype), Herold OT (Paratype), Virile, Absinthe (Rian Hughes), Artistik, ITC Croissant, Arnold Boecklin, Eckmann Com, Ortem (Mecanorma), Art Gothic (URW), Greeting Monotone, P22 Art Nouveau (Christina Torre), Boomerang (Tim Ryan), ITC Baylac (Gerard Mariscalchi), Metroplitaines P (URW), Metroploitain (Elsner+Flake), ITC Stoclet, Galicia (Rian Hughes), Neuseidler (Richard Yeend), Virgin Roman (David Farey), Kolo (Paul Shaw), ITC Noovo (Phill Grimshaw), Abacus (David Farey), Maigret (David Farey), Edda (Ralph M. Unger, URW), ITC Galadriel (Alan Meeks), Eccentric, Skjald, Cupid, Beatty Victoriana (Richard Beatty), Isabella (Hermann Ihlenburg), ITC Tarragon (Alan Meeks), Old Paris Nouveau (Nathan Williams), Auriol, FF Elegie (Albert Boton), Edwardian 1 and 2 (Colin Brignall), Cantoria (Ron Carpenter), Della Robbia (Bitstream), Meyer Two (Font Bureau), ITC Korinna (Antonio DiSpigna), Lutahline (Judith Sutcliffe). Scans: i, ii, iii, iv, v. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Artist of Design

Commercial foundry in Kensington, MN, run by "André". Most of his fonts are handprinted, such as AZ Cut Script (2011, a script), AZ Pledge, AZ Grampa, AZ Fast Fury, AZ Hello, AZ Dude, AZ Tiki, AZ Script, AZ New Rough, AZ Imperial, AZ College (+Brushed), and AZ Vintage Tattoo, all made ca. 2010-2011. AZ Union (2011) is a Western face. AZ Text (2011) and AZ Dramamine (2011) are grungy handprinted faces. AZ Sailor Tattoo (2011) is an outline tattoo face. AZ Hello Brushed (2011) is a brush face inspired by auto repair signs. AZ Rough Fart (2011) is a squarish mural brush face. AZ Wings (2011) is Victorian. AZ Placid (2011) is an eroded outline face.

Type designs from 2012: AZ Barista (inspired by Leonetto Cappiello's poster art from the 1920s), AZ Indian (signage script), AZ Harpers July (inspired by Edward Penfield's poster art from ca. 1900), AZ Plug Italic (inspired by the poster art of Edward Penfield and Franz Hazenplug, ca. 1900). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Aure Font Design
[Aurora Isaac]

Aurora Isaac (Aure Font Design, Issaqua, WA) is a California-born type designer. She created the uncial face Aure Westra LP (2011) and the Victorian family Aure Zeritha LP (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Barmee.com (was: Czcionki.com, or: Barme Fonts)
[Bartek Nowak]

Original fonts by Polishman Bartek Nowak (aka Barme, b. 1973) made in 2000-2001: BukwaNormal (Cyrillic), Nokian (pixel font), Passja, Xar, BarmeReczny, Elementarz (orthographic writing for kids) [see also here], Gotyk-Poszarpany (Fraktur), Afarat Ibn Blady (Arabic simulation face), Hieroglify, Kobajashi, Kwadryga, Magda (Basque), Maszyna (old typewriter), MaszynaAEG, Nerwus (scribbly, sketchy), Pascal, SecesjaPL (curly font: a revival of Herman Ihlenburg's ulktra-Victorian face Nymphic), Zakret, RecycleIt, Sandwich, Keiser Sousa, Manifest.

Alternate URL.

Font list (with repetitions): 4Mini, BarmeReczny, Elementarz, Fiesta, GotykPoszarpany, GrubaBerta, Hieroglify, Infantyl, KeiserSousa, Kobajashi, Kwadryga, Magda, Manifest-Niski, Manifest, MaszynaAEG, MiniMasa, MiniSet, MiniSter, Nerwus, Nokian, Nokian2, Opeln2001-Prosty, Opeln2001, Opeln2001Szeroki, Pascal, Passja, Premiership, RecycleIt, Sandwich, SecesjaPL, Szablon, Wabene, Xar, Zakret, MiniForma, MiniStrzalki, Miniline, Minitot, Ulisson, Astalamet (2002), Gosford (2002), Volan (2002), Establo, QuatronFat, Infantyl (2002), Quatron (2002), YnduFat (2002), YnduOut (2002).

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This site carried these fonts in May 2008: 4Mini, Afarat-ibn-Blady, Astalamet, AstalametPure, BarmeReczny, Cyree, DorBlue, ElementarzDwa, Erton, Establo, EstabloFat, Fiesta, Gosford, GotykPoszarpany, GrubaBerta, Hieroglify, HongKong (oriental simulation), Infantyl, InfantylFat, InfantylItalic, InfantylOut, Jiczyn, KeiserSousa, Kobajashi, Komix, Kwadryga, Lola, Magda, Manifest-Niski, Manifest, MaszynaAEG, MaszynaRoyalDark, MaszynaRoyalLight (typewriter types), MiniBet, MiniForma2, MiniJasc, MiniKongo, MiniLine2, MiniMasa, MiniQuan, MiniQuanMniejszy, MiniSet2, MiniSter, MiniStrzalki, MiniTot, Nerwus, Nokian, Nokian2, Opeln2001-Prosty, Opeln2001, Opeln2001Szeroki-Metro, Opeln2001Szeroki, Pascal, Paskowy, Passja, Quatron, QuatronFat, RecycleIt, Sandwich, SecesjaPL, Sloneczko, Szablon, Tabun, TechnicznaPomoc-Italic, TechnicznaPomoc, TechnicznaPomocRound, Ulisson, Vaderiii, Volan, Wabene, Xar.

In 2011, he established the commercial foundry GRIN3. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Baseline Fonts
[Nathan Williams]

Foundry in Wichita, KS, founded in 2002 by Nathan Williams (b. Concordia, KS, 1973), formerly from the University of Kansas Art Museum Library. Its motto: The goal of the foundry is to provide uninterpreted revivals of type samples generated through disappearing printing methods, and create new fonts for dissemination in the type community. Order through MyFonts.Com or Union Fonts or ITC fonts. FontShop link. Klingspor link.

Fonts:

• The Rodeo family of wood type fonts: 66 Rodeo, 57 Rodeo, 58 Rodeo (2003), Rodeo Rope, Rodeo Rope Superchunk.
• The Tuscan family: Tuscan (2003, a wild west face). To this group we can add the Tuscan face Circus KS (2006).
• Egyptians: Grit Egyptienne (2005, grunge Egyptian family), Rough Egyptienne (2005).
• Grunge faces: Antimony (2005, grunge), Dryden (distressed handwritten face).
• Old typewriter fonts: Slab American Regular (old typewriter), Slab American Titling, Slab American Titling Heavy (2002). Slab American has 55 styles.
• Art nouveau faces: Old Paris Nouveau (2003).
• Pixelish faces: Base PXL7, 80s PXL Bold.
• Display Sans: Maxime (2004, having support for most European languages; Maxime Shadow is available at FontShop), Woodgrit Thin (based on 19th century American letterpress fonts), Woodgrit Medium, Woodgrit Heavy., Pippen (squarish).
• Calligraphic: Roundhand Regular.
• Victorian: Boback.
• The Grit family: Grit History (2003-2004), Grit Primer (2003), Grit Egyptienne, Grit Typesorts (2006, free).
• The Old Times American family (+Italic, +Titling).
• Pia Regular.
• Kandt: the handwriting of legendary designer and art director James Kandt; 4 styles.
• Chitchy.
• AVI Sans.
• Country Fang (2003, with Brian Miller).
• Craft Roman
• Licious Script.
• Luxe (2003, casual).
• Momentum (2002).
• George Gibson (handwriting from mid 1800s).
• Dingbats: Megaflakes 2010 (2010) and Megaflakes 2011 (2011).
• Sketchwriter (2011).
• Dusty Circus (2011) is a five-layer stacking display face designed to be infinitely morphed. It is a prototypical member of that old western circus font genre.

Brent Couchman

Designer and illustrator at Hatch in San Francisco, who hails from Boerne, TX. His typefaces include Sasquatch (2011, a bilined custom face), and Milk (2011), a very thin slab face. He is working on the multiline face Hello (2011), and on the Victorian ornamental face San (2011). Flickr link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bruce Mikita

Faux Chinese font from Bruce's Type Foundry, 1867, originating from Bruce's Ornamented no. 1048. Paul Shaw notes: Mikita is considered by type historians to be the oldest ethnic type since it has an "Asian" quality and can be traced back to a design by Bruce's New York Type Foundry in 1867. But that face, created by Julius Herriet, Sr., underwent a number of name changes, based on how it was perceived over the years. Originally called Bruce's Ornamented no. 1048, it was copied in England the following year by the foundry of J.&R.M. Wood, which named it Novel. Bruce later renamed it Rustic Shaded, a descriptive name that suggests a cabin's carpentry. But in the mid-'50s, when Charles Broad, the owner of Typefounders of Phoenix, dubbed it Mikita, the letters must have been equally suggestive of Japanese woodworking. A decade or so later, the Visual Graphics Corporation, a leading manufacturer of display phototype fonts, offered it as Bruce Mikita (TB-29). The digital version of the face was created in 2000 by Harold Lohner of Harold's Fonts. Although unaware of the type's history-on his website, Lohner asks, "Who was Bruce Mikita?"-Lohner recognized the font's latent qualities, writing, "It seems handcrafted and rustic and suggests East Asian calligraphy." Lohner based his version on a showing of the face in Dan X. Solo's Victorian Display Alphabets (1976). Interestingly, Solo, the owner of Solotype Typographers, considered the face Victorian rather than Japanese. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Candee Kis

Original fonts and dingbats by Candee Kis: Victorian Silhouettes, Jewels, Ornaments. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Caps and initials
[Manfred Klein]

Capitals are a goldmine for illustrators, drawers, and artists. They go beyond just mere type. So, to no one's surprise, Manfred has created over one hundred initial caps faces: AlkoInitials, AlkoInitialsFramed, AnarchoCaps, CapitalisTypOasisMedium, CapsMKS, CapsRandomish, CapsRandomishBricks, CassandraTwo, ChaosStripesCaps, CircleInitialsFreeshape, ClassiCapsBricksBlack, ClassiCapsShields, Clown-Normal, ClownNormal, ConstrAccident, ConstruCaps, CorrodetInitials (2006), CorrodetClassicaps, CrazyConstructor, CrazyCrazySans, CrazyCrazySans, CuneateCaps, DelitschInitialen, DotCapsMK, DotsCapsTwo, DrunkenConstructor, Ermir-Normal, ErmirNormal, FatFloralphabetXperimental, FilledABC, FloRaTialen, FloRaTialen, FloralOne, FloralTwo, FloralalphaLight, FlowerPower, FlowerPowerRound-Medium, FragmentCaps-Cross, FragmentCapsRound-Medium, GaranitialRings, GaraNitialsFramed, GaraNitialsFramed, Glitter, GlitterOblique, GoticaCaps, GotikaButtons (2005, after Imre Reiner's Gotika from 1933), GriffosSCapsFont, HansSchoensCapsInGrid, JahnsCapsRound50, JuliusCaesarBlack, KleinFeodoraCaps, KleinsWrittenCaps, LeiterplattenSans, LetterBuildings, LetterBuildingsTHREE, LinoCapsA, LinoCapsAR, LinocapsB, LinocapsBR, LombardiCaps-Round, LombardiCaps, LucaPacioliCaps, LucaPacioliRough, MKapitalisRusticaMedium, MammothishCaps, Mighty-Normal, Mighty-Normal, MightyContour-Black, MightyShadowBlack, MightySpecial-Normal, MightySpecialNormal, MightySpecialNormal, MightyWindyBlack, MultiCapsOne, MultiCapsTwo, NeoPanFrames, NoisyButtons, OldConstructedCaps, OldiesButGoodies, OrnamentalInitial, OrnamentalInitialButtons, OszillCapsSecond, OszilloCapsFirst, PetitFleurLight, PetitFleurNormal, PixCaps, PixCaps, PixCapsRound, PixCapsShadow, PixCapsWinding, PreRomanCaps, QuadratZiffernNegativ, QuadrataRoma-MediumOblique, QuasimodoCaps, ReliefCaps-Italic, ReliefCaps, RememberCassandre, RememberManhattanBolkd, RememberManhattanSeptember, RememberScribbledTypes, RodGauApesInitials, RomanGridCaps, SaltoOne-Normal, SaltoOne-Normal, SaltoTwo-Normal, SaltoTwo-Normal, SchneidlerSchwabachInitials, SchoenspergerCaps, SerifsCaps, Solitaire, Solitaires, StoneCapsIngrid, TangoMacabre, Tangoasis, TornielloInitials, Torynitialen, TorysToolsFS, ToscanButtons, ToskanaCapsRound, TrajanSmallCaps, TrajanusBriX-Invers, TrajanusBricks, TrajanusBricksXtra, TypOasisInitials, VariationsForImre, VenetianBlind, VenetianBlindInverse, VespasianCaps, VespasiansFlorials, WeimarCaps, WieynkCapsRound, WindyCityCaps, ZagzagCaps, ZebralCaps, ZebralSketchedCapsItalic, LambordicCaps, Florabetic (2005), LettersAnimales (2005), 5thCenturyCaps (2005), SnowCupsCaps (2005), VaticanianInitials (2005, gorgeous!), StackCaps (2005), DirtyHatchCaps (2005), ChristianInitials (2005), PlantsLetters (2005), CorrosClassicClimbers (2005), MKapish (2005), MKapsMixed (2005), LettersBats (2005), SchnörkelCaps (2005), XmasCaps (2005), SomeCapsStories (2006), ImresCorrodetCaps (2006), OldLettresOmbrees (2006), ArtNouveauCaps (2006), ChildrensAlphabet (2006), CatsAlphabet (2006), DigitalisHistory (2006), Duodez (2006), InitialenFramed-MK (2006), FlorAlphabet (2006), SilvestreInitials (2006), ClassicRomanCaps (2006), IllustratedAlphabet (2006), ToleCaps (2006), DelitzschCaps (2006), ImresDiscs (2006), Faces Alphabet Beta (2006), Szene In Frames (2006), Parma Initialen MK (2006), KlUngerCaps (2006), RememberScribbledInv (2006), Tequila (2006), Fraxboxes (2006, based on Rakowski's Griffin), RodgauCaps (2006), DeKonitials (2006), BigBrotherClassizismCaps (2006), K-LettresOmbrées (2006), TreeLike (2006), VictorianInitialsOne (2006), CircusBoldSquares (2006), KochsLongCapsSquares (2006), RomanaCapsClassicSquares (2006), Gotic Caps (2006), CircusBoldSquaresInvers (2006), MKanzleiCaps-One (2006), JahnsCaps (2007), Kletteralphabet (2007), StencilBricks97 (2007), ZierCaps (2007), ImresFraxCaps (2007), DeconstructionCaps (2007), SuprematismK (2007), DodgesCaps (2007), FloraliaCaps (2007), JugendstilCaps (2007), Schraffura (2007), ClassicaCaps (2007), Serena (2007), TokayOSeven (2007), DevilsAlphabets (2007), HeidEcker (2007), LombardInitials (2007), ClassicapsC (2007), GearingZahnradABC (2007), JuliusCaesarDisks (2007), Pixfabet (2007), QuasiModoButtons (2007), RoundAbout (2007), SilhouOtto (2007), CorrodetClassicapsBlack, HansSachsCaps, RococoCoquete (2007), SatanicAlphabet (2007), TwilightCaps (2007), Wacomiqua (2007), FrakturInitials07 (2007).
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Carolina Pernet

Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the spindly Victorian typeface Furh Modern (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

CAT Design Wolgast
[Peter Wiegel]

Wolgast-based type designer Peter Wiegel (b. 1955) runs CAT Design Wolgast. Designer of these free fonts:

• In 2012: Fundamental Brigade (sans family), DiffiKult, Men Nefer (a Memphis lookalike), Fette Unz Fraktur (like Fette Fraktur), Mutter Krause (for the reconstruction of the 1929 silent movie "Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück", where it is used for intertitles, that where missing. The font is redrawn from the original intertitles), Youbilee (a font with laurels).
• In 2010: Alfabilder (dingbats), Gondrin (athletic lettering with a 3d effect), HelvetiaVerbundene (making Helverica into a school script?), Proletarsk (a grotesk face), Vis-à-vis (great idea--a double-storied serif face), ApolloASM (Victorian), BertholdrMainzerFraktur, Doergon-Regular (license plate font), DoergonBackshift, DoergonShift, Eureka (Victorian, ornamental face), GoeschenFraktur (1880-style Fraktur used in Sammlung Göschen books), Makushka, MakushkaKontura, MakushkaQuadriga, MakushkaSecunda, Moderne3DSchwabacher, ModerneGekippteSchwabacher, StrassburgFraktur, TGL0-16 (same as DIN 16), TGL0-17 (same as DIN 17), TGL0-17Alt, Tank (emblems of gas companies), EricaType-Bold, EricaType-BoldItalic, EricaType-Italic, EricaType-Regular (typewriter), ErikaOrmig, Fibel Vienna (2012, a high-legged sans), GreifswalderTengwar-Regular, GreifswalerDeutscheSchrift (German Schreibschrift), Midroba-Regular (a strong mechanical octagonal face), MidrobaSchatten, MMX2010 (futuristic), Präsent60, Rotunda Pommerania (blackletter), TengwarOptime, TengwarOptimeDiagon, cbe-Bold, cbe-BoldItalic, cbe-Italic, cbe.
• In 2009: 18thCenturyInitials, 18thCenturyKurrent-Regular, 18thCenturyKurrentAlternates, German writing from the 18th century), CentreClaws, CentreClawsBeam1, CentreClawsSlant, Cöntgen Kanzley Regular (blackletter), Cöntgen Kanzley Aufrecht (2009), ElficCaslin, H1N1, Loxembourg1910Shadow (an art nouveau-influenced stencil face), Luxembourg1910, VarietScala (an art deco sans family), Varietee, VarieteeArtist, VarieteeCabaret, VarieteeCascadeur, VarieteeCasino, VarieteeCirque, VarieteeColege, VarieteeConferencier, VarieteeFolies, VarieteeIkarier, VarieteeJongleur, VarieteeMirage, VarieteeRevue, VarieteeTheatre, KochFetteDeutscheSchrift (blackletter), MoradoFelt-Regular (upright connected script), MoradoMarker (2009), MoradoNib, PreussischeVI9 (DIN-like family), PreussischeVI9Linie, PreussischeVI9Schatten-Linie, PreussischeVI9Schatten, SchatternvonPreussischeVI9, Stage (art deco), Ring Matrix (dot matrix), Nathan, Amptmann Script (2009, upright connected script), Cat Shop, Blankenburg (blackletter), Murrx (arched face), Schwaben Alt (1988, bastarda), Vrango, 14LED (Regular, Phattt-Heavy, Rised-Black), 24LED (+Bright, +Grid, +Modul), DIN1451fetteBreitschrift1936-Regular, FibelNord (basic sans family with an architectural twist), FibelSued (family), PaneuropaBankette, PaneuropaCrashbarrier-Black, PaneuropaFreeway, PaneuropaHighway, PaneuropaRoad, PaneuropaStreet, PaneuropaWrongWay, Quirkus (family), RingMatrix (dot matrix family), RingMatrix3D, RingMatrixTwo, DiscipuliBritannica (connected script), GruenewaldVA-Regular (connected school script), Rudelskopfdeutsch-Aufrecht, WiegelLatein (connected school script), WiegelLateinMedium (2009), Morado, Moebius Bicolor (art deco), Elbaris (sans), ElbarisOutline, Nomitais (multiline face), RostockKaligraph, Waschkueche, WaschkuecheGrob-Ultra, WiegelKurrent (traditional German school script), WiegelKurrentMedium, XAyax, XAyaxOutline (2009), Kaufhalle (squarish), Quimbie (art deco), CasaSans-Regular, Elb-Tunnel, MeyneTextur (blackletter), Yiggivoo, TGL 31034-1 (futuristic sans), Beroga (a simple organic sans).
• Before 2009: Xayax, PreussischeIV44Ausgabe3 (2006, a severe sans), Utusi Star (1989, very condensed all-caps face), Avocado (2006, script face), CbeNormal (2006, script face), Leipzig Fraktur (+Bold) (2006), Berlin Email (2006, a condensed sans family, followed in 2009 by Berlin Email Serif), MaassslicerItalic (2006, a futuristic face made for Rudolf Maass + Partner GmbH), Powerweld (a gorgeous avant-garde face made for OPTI Pumpen und Technik GmbH), WolgastScript (2005), WolgastTwo (2006, connected script), WolgastTwoBold, ZeichenDreihundert-Regular, ZeichenHundert-Regular, ZeichenVierhundert-Regular, ZeichenZweihundert-Regular (2006, traffic dingbats), Djerba simplified (Arabic font, Computer and Technologie, Hamburg, 1995; it can be downloaded here), Titus FrakturBaltic (1998), TITUS FrakturEast Normal (1998), and TITUS FrakturWest Normal (1998) [which used to be downloadable here; these fonts were retired and the Titus name dropped; most of the glyphs made it to Schwaben Alt].

Cecilia Payseur

Graphic designer in Charlotte, NC, who during her internship with Arzberger Stationers, created some caps faces in 2011; Flora/a> (floriated), Suzy (oriental simulation), Caroline (calligraphic), Sassie (Victorian), and a blackletter face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Central Type Foundry

Foundry from St. Louis, est. 1872. It became "Central Division of ATF" in 1893. Discussion of its types by McGrew. Digitizations:

• Spiral was the basis of the curly revival Hasta La Pasta (2005, Nick Curtis).
• Raphael (1885) was digitized at Linotype. It is a serif face with lots of swashy flair.
• Monument is a Solotype revival of a 1893 face by the Boston Type Foundry (which was also cast at the Central Type Foundry).
• Harpers was designed for the popular newsweekly of the same name. It was digitally revived in 2009 by Nick Curtis as Weekly Bazaar NF.
• Oh You Klid NF (2009, Nick Curtis) is based on the Victorian face Euclid from the 1880s.
• Multiform, created for coloring. No known digitization.
• Quaint Roman: a great hand-drawn alphabet. Not digitized yet.
• An 1880 face was revived in 2011 by Claude Pelletier as Euclid CP (free download).

Ch. Rud & Son

London-based foundry, active at the end of the 19th century. Creators of the Victorian/almost art nouveau face Artistique Recherche. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charles Emil Heyer

Chicago-based punch-cutter, 1841 (Berlin)-1897 (Chicago). His typefaces have late Victorian and early art nouveau elements:

• At BBS: Armenian (+Extended) (1879), Calumet (1887), Castle (1888), Challenge Lightface (1888), Fair (1893), Fair Open (1891), Grant No. 2 (1892), Heyer, Jewel Script (1888), La Salle (1889), Lakeside Script (1883), Lyric (+Lightface Lyric, 1882; in 1925 renamed to Greeting Card (+Light)), Maltese (+Open) (1878), Mayo, Myrtle Script (1885), Occident (+Shaded) (1881), Opaque, Plate Script, Princess Script (1887), Princeton, Solar (1888), Sylvan Text.
• At Boston Type Foundry: Bank Note Italic Ornamented (1875), Compressed Black (1875), Copperplate Italic (1875), Harlem (+Open, +Shade) (1875), Mayence (1875), Nubian (1876), Rococo (1876), Vienna (1875).

Christian Munk

Danish designer (b. 1991), aka CMunk, who used FontStruct in 2008 to create Flag Semaphore (+Smooth, Peace), Articulate, Font from NATO (military slab serif), Glockenwerk (2008, pixel clock font), Glockenwerk Uhrzeit (2008), Flags-and-NATO (dingbats), Font from NATO alpha, Tall, Flying-Circus (Western showtime face to imitate the Monty Python titling font), LCD-display, Simple (stencil font with 700 glyphs), TMNT, Tetris, sharp-pixels, Raster, Quad (2008, nice stencil face), Inverted (2008), Propaganda (2008, Cyrillic font simulation), Empty Monospace (2008), Pride (2008), Stadium (2008), Rounded (2008), Dear God (script pixel face), Celtic Style (2008).

In 2009, he added 7x12 Pixel Mono, @bcde, Abstract Letter Patterns, Music, Texture, Diagonal, Gothic, Illusio, Unispace (typewriter type), Narrow Serif, Delta, Alien Double (great!), Donut, Flags-and-NATO, Simple-Fraktur-Initial, Simple-Fraktur, Texture, Friendly Serif, (+Soft), Invisible, Sharp, Heavy Diacritics, Concentrium, Continuous Digital Display, Elves, Pixies, Space Movie (+Ligatures), Flag Semaphore (+Smooth, +Peace), Articulate, BBT Biline Twist, Biline Twist, Empty Monospace, Unfix, Infix, Pride, Tyre Stencil (like tire threads---nifty...), and Overlap.

FontStructions from 2010: Even (gridded), Brilliance, Slalom Vision, Quirky Serif, 7x12PixelMono, Ball Terminator, Gearbox, Prefix, Upside Down, Way Too Small (a minimalist pixel face), Butterfly, Ribbon Gymnastics, 2D Barcode, Horizon Stencil, Biline Twist, Quirky Serif, Blocktur, Symmetricus (alien writing?).

FontStructions in 2011: 12 dice, Monotwist (tall, monospaced), Squarific (fat octagonal), Swirl (curly), Sweet (Victorian), Easter Eggs, 50 Fifty (experimental, geometric), Squarific (+Stencilious), Spiralix (spiral-themed for Latin and Cyrillic), Bloccus, Feet (monospaced).

Creations from 2012: Blick, Dry Heat (Isolates and Initials, Medials, Finals: an Arabic simulation family), FF9 Coin Slots, FF8 Untalic, FF7 w1de, FF6 Lean Mean, FF5 Bamana, FF4 Circulation, FF3 3times7, FF3 Runization, FF1 Glitchy. FF stands for Forgotten Fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christina Torre

Co-designer with Richard Kegler of several fonts at P22 type foundry, which she joined in 2000. She graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo with a BA in Communication Design. Identifont link.

• P22 Art Nouveau Bistro, P22 Art Nouveau Cafe, P22 Art Nouveau Extras (ornaments), all made in 2001-2002.
• P22 Dearest Script, P22 Dearest Swash: calligraphic in the style of medieval scribes, and a winner of an award at the TDC2 Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2002.
• P22 FLLW Exhibition, P22 FLLW Terracotta, both done in 2000: these are based on alphabets by Frank Lloyd Wright published in 1931 and in 1896-1897 (in his book The House Beautiful), respectively.
• Gothic Gothic (2001): a blackletter done with James Grieshaber.
• P22 Mucha (2001): an art nouveau font inspired by Alfons Mucha, ca. 1900.
• P22 Pan Am (1999, with Richard Kegler). Created for the centennial of the Pan-American exposition of 1901, held in Buffalo, NY.
• P22 Salon (2001): more art nouveau.
• P22 Victorian Gothic (2000, with Richard Kegler and Amy Greenan). Based on a type style called Atlanta, similar to Copperplate.

Christopher Laughlin

American graphic and type designer who created Semester (a curly almost Victorian script) and Joseph Venetian (almost blackletter) in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chyrllene K

Daughter of Iza W, who started producing type at Intellecta in 2010. She is credited with these faces:

• ABC Hand (2011). A sign language face.
• Pencraft (2010): a penmanship face with uppercase based on Swagger Capitals (Carl Stephen Junge, at Barnhart Brothers&Spindler), and lowercase based on Sidney Gaunt's Pencraft Oldstyle series (1914), as displayed in the BBS catalog from 1922.
• Bonsai Paufo (2010): a dingbat face.
• Jugendstil Flowers (2011).
• Libertee Ornaments (2011): done with Paulo W.
• MesoAmerican (+Two) (2011): native Indian dingbat faces.
• Tribalism (2011): three faces with ornaments and fleurons, done together with Iza W and Paulo W.
• Cripto (2011). With Paulo W.
• Bruce 1065 Soft Serifs (2011). Very Victorian.

Clarence P. Hornung
[Dick Pape]

The book Early Advertising Alphabets, Initials and Typographic Ornaments, edited by Clarence P. Hornung, led Dick Pape to creates these digital fonts in 2008: AltDeutsch, Amorette1889, ArabesqueDesign, BreiteEgyptienne, BreiteverzierteClarendon, ChiswickPressGothicInitials, EarlyScrollAlphabet, EarlySignboards, EnglandInitials1880, ErhardDatdolt, FlorentineInitials, FlorentineInitialsReverse, GothicChancery1880s, GothicClosedLetter, Hollandisch-Gothic, JudendstilAlphabet, LilyoftheValley, Papillon1760 [Woodcut initials by Jean-Michel Papillon---first shown in Paris, 1760. Jean-Michel was a son of Jean Papillon, the famous manufacturer of fine wallpapers], Phantasie, RomaineMidolline, RomanPrintShaded, RusticAlphabet, SilhouetteInitials1880, TheTerrorsofNightLife, VerzierteAltGothic, VerzierteGothic, VictoriaGingerbread189. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Clarendon

A discussion on Typophile regarding the history of Clarendon and good versions. This site provides additional information. A summary:

• The original Clarendon is due to Robert Besley (1845). Robert Bringhurst writes: Clarendon is the name of a whole genus of Victorian typefaces, spawned by a font cut by Benjamin Fox for Robert Besley at the Fann Street Foundry, London, in 1845. These faces reflect the hearty, stolid, bland, unstoppable aspects of the British Empire. They lack cultivation, but they also lack menace and guile. They squint and stand their ground, but they do not glare. In other words, they consist of thick strokes melding into thick slab serifs, fat ball terminals, vertical axis, large eye, low contrast and tiny aperture. The original had no italic, as the face had nothing of the fluent hand or sculpted nib left in its pedigree.
• Robert Bringhurst: Herman Eidenbenz drew a revival Clarendon for Haas Foundry in Münchenstein, Switzerland, in 1951, and in 1962 the foundry finally added the light weight that transformed the series, paring it down from premodern ponderousness to postmodern insubstantiality. Clarendon LT (Linotype) is the digital version of this face (Linotype says that the face was created in 1953, contradicting Bringhurst).
• Freeman "Jerry" Craw designed the Craw Clarendon (Book and Condensed) at ATF in 1955-1960. It is available, e.g., as Craw Clarendon EF.
• Contemporary Clarendons include Font Bureau's Giza, Storm's Farao and Hoefler's Proteus.

Clarendon

The original Clarendon is due to Robert Besley (1845). Robert Bringhurst writes: Clarendon is the name of a whole genus of Victorian typefaces, spawned by a font cut by Benjamin Fox for Robert Besley at the Fann Street Foundry, London, in 1845. These faces reflect the hearty, stolid, bland, unstoppable aspects of the British Empire. They lack cultivation, but they also lack menace and guile. They squint and stand their ground, but they do not glare. In other words, they consist of thick strokes melding into thick slab serifs, fat ball terminals, vertical axis, large eye, low contrast and tiny aperture. The original had no italic, as the face had nothing of the fluent hand or sculpted nib left in its pedigree.

Mac McGrew adds: Clarendon is a traditional English style of typeface, dating from the 1840s, the name coming from the Clarendon Press at Oxford, or, according to some sources, from Britain's Earl of Clarendon and his interest in that country's Egyptian policies. (Such faces were classified as Egyptians, and inspired such later designs as Cairo, Karnak, Memphis, and Stymie.) Early Clarendons were used primarily as titles and display faces, for which their strong and sturdy nature was well suited. They have the general structure of romans, but lack the hairlines typical of those faces. Being heavier, the traditional Clarendons were often used as boldfaces with romans, before the family idea provided matching boldface designs.

McGrew continues his discussion by pointing out various revivals and typefaces with strong similarities: Similar faces were known as Doric or Ionic, before more individualized type names became common; in fact, all three names were sometimes used interchangeably. Most foundries had versions of Clarendon, and sometimes Doric and Ionic, in the nineteenth century, but most of these faces were obsolescent by the turn of the century. However, a few were copied by Linotype, Intertype and Monotype, and thus given a renewed lease on life. Clarendon Medium of BB&S was formerly known as Caledonian. ATF had a similar face known as Ionic No. 522. Keystone showed Clarendon Condensed in 1890. Clarendon [No. 51 of BB&S was called Winchendon by Hansen, and extended to 48-point. Like many pre-point-system faces, some foundries adapted them to point-system standards by casting them on oversize bodies, others on undersize bodies with overhanging descenders. In the later 1950s Stephenson Blake in England revived several of these early Clarendons under the new name of Consort, which became a popular import (and the source of some of our specimens). Consort Bold Condensed is said to be the first Clarendon, of 1845. (Some added members of the Consort family are noted under Popular Imports in the Appendix.) In 1953 a new version of Clarendon was developed by Hermann Eidenbenz for the Haas Typefoundry in Switzerland and later acquired by Stempel in Germany. The Haas Clarendon was copied by Linotype in 1966, in light and bold weights, and about the same time Ludlow brought out three weights of essentially the same face. This was created primarily to set the newspaper ads of a large department store, but it was a good addition to the resources of Ludlow. ATF commissioned a modernized rendition of Clarendon from Freeman Craw, and this was brought out in 1955 as Craw Clarendon (q.v.). About 1961 Monotype brought out Clarendon Bold Extended, similar to Craw Clarendon but heavier. Also see Ionic, News with Clarendon, Manila. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Claude Pelletier

Quebec-based typographer and type designer (aka Diogene) who specializes mainly in revivals of obscure or old typefaces. Dafont link. Yet another URL. Abfonts carries many of his fonts. Fontspace link. His typefaces:

• Salamandre (2012). A tall 19-th century style slab face.
• Angelica CP (2011)
• Barrio CP (2011). An inline face.
• BeansCP (2010, after a font found on page 10 of Art Deco Display Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts by Dan X. Solo)
• Bizarre and Bizarrerie (2010; based on Edwards and Inland, both designed in 1895 by Nicholas J. Werner at the Inland Type Foundry; renamed in 1925 by BBS)
• Bloque Demo (2011). Experimental.
• Bold (2008)
• Carre (2009, athletic numerals).
• Champignon (1999-2009, a formal calligraphic script)
• Chartrand (2010, Victorian)
• Chomage (2009)
• Chopin Script (1999-2010, calligraphic; after Polonaise by Phil Martin)
• Constanze Initials (2010)
• Crayonnette (2000)
• DeClaude (2010, patterned and named after DeVinne)
• Derniere (1999)
• Dojo CP (2011)
• Dynamic CP (2010, based on page 48 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces as Dynamic Deco)
• Ebony (2011). Based on a Marder&Luse design from 1890. Ebony is on page 38 of 100 Ornamental Alphabets by Dan X. Solo and also on page 43 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces.
• Embrionic 85 (sic) (2012, +Swash Caps) and Embrionic 55 Swash (2012): an ink trap sans display family.
• Essai (2003)
• Euclid CP (2011): based on an 1880 face at Central Type Foundry.
• Fancy Text (2004, blackletter)
• Fantaisie1 (1999)
• Haricot (2010, a fat modular face based on Beans in the Dan Solo catalog)
• Humeur (2001-2002, funny smilies)
• IEC5000 (2011). A symbol font with electrical and other icons.
• Initiales Medium (2011)
• JohnHancockCP-Medium (2010, bold didone)
• Landi Echo (2011). A remake of Landi Echo by Alessandro Butti (1939-1943).
• La Tribune (2011). A newspaper type.
• Le Golf or Le Trou (2010, art nouveau face by Antoine Szczebanski, digitized by Claude Pelletier; also on page 71 of the Solotype catalogf)
• Lionel P (2010, a multiline face inspired by Letraset's 1973 face Stripes)
• Malvern (1999)
• Monterey Wide (2011). A Tuscan ornamental face, based on a showing on page 22 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces.
• Motscroises (1997)
• Oxford CP (2010, a multiline face, based on the 1960s face by Christine Lord)
• Pasdecourbe (2003)
• Pasdenom (2001, no punctuation)
• Pepinot (2012), an art nouveau face based on Coral Inline on page 190 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces.
• Pistilli Roman (2011, after the original by Pistilli)
• Postface (2012). A bold signage script face.
• Rita Smith (2012). After Primavera by Rita Major.
• TriangleETcircleShadow, TriangleETcircleShadowed (2010, 3d iron work style face)
• UptightC (2010, multiline face)
• Bienetresocial (2003), BienetresocialBold (2003)
• Rogers, Rogers2 (1997). He says that it is not his font0---that he just rearranged the glyphs. According to Cklaude, can be found in the book Treasury of Authentic Art Nouveau Alphabets, ed. Petzendorfer, Plate 23. It was made in 1902 by A.V. Haight for Inland Typefoundry.
• Simplement (2011) is Cut-in Medium on page 163 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces.

Cleveland Type Foundry

Foundry in Cleveland that existed from 1875 until 1892, when it was absorbed by ATF. Its original designs include Koster Initials and Litho (a curly Victorian face digitally revived by Nick Curtis in 2007 as Cleveland Litho NF; Curtis says that it comes from an 1898 specimen book but that contradicts the ATF date). They published Catalogue and Book of Specimens From the Cleveland Type Foundry. The H.H. Thorp Mfg. Co., 147 St. Clair Street, Cleveland, Ohio (176 pages, 1880) and Catalogue and book of specimens of type faces and printing material and machinery (1895). Another Curtis revival, Yum Yum NF (2008) is said to be based on Mikado from an 1893 Cleveland specimen book. And in 2008, Nick Curtis continued with a revival of the geometric display face Morning Glory (1893), and a revival of Oxford called Really Big Shoe NF (2009). One of CTF's most famous typefaces is the faux-Chinese font Chinese (1883, later called Mandarin). In 2010, Nick Curtis redid Geometric, a typewriter style face, and called it Linndale Square NF. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Colin Brignall

British type designer and art director, born in 1940 (MyFonts.com says 1945, Warwickshire), who was type director at Letraset for some time. In 1995 Brignall moved to ITC. With the closure of ITC's New York office in November 1999, Brignall was re-appointed Type Director for Esselte Letraset. The latest major project in which Brignall was involved was the ITC Johnston series launched in 1999. He received the Type Directors Club Medal at TDC2 in 2001. Bio. Bio at Linotype. His fonts there included

• Aachen Bold (1969), Aachen Medium (1977, with Alan Meeks). The Scangraphic version is Aachen SH.
• Revue (1969), an unsuccessful display face.
• Countdown (1965, LED simulation face), cyrillicized in 1993 by A. Kustov at TypeMarket.
• Superstar (1970, an athletic lettering face now owned by ITC and sold by MyFonts).
• Italia (1974; see Istria on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002), Italia Book (1977).
• Premier Lightline (1969), an elegant art deco hairline face.
• Premier Shaded (1970), caps only shaded art deco face.
• Romic Light (1979-1980). See R790 Roman on Softmaker's XXL CD (2002).
• Corinthian (1981).
• Epokha (1992), a 1910 poster style slab serif.
• Edwardian (1983). The digital version is at Elsner&Flake, for example.
• Harlow (1977-1979), a fifties style display script. The Scangraphic versions are Harlow SB and Harlow SH.
• Octopuss (1970), similar to Harlow.
• Tango (1974) [a freefont inspired by Tango can be found in Julius B. Thyssen's Kylie 1996-J], yet another face in the spirit of Harlow.
• Jenson Old Style (with Freda Sack), a Venetian face.
• Victorian (1976, with Freda Sack).
• Type Embellishments One, Two and Three (1994): handsome ornaments developed in the Letraset Type Studio by Michael Gills and Colin Brignall to complement the Fontek Typeface Library.

FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Corradine Fonts
[Manuel Eduardo Corradine]

Manuel Corradine was born in Bogotá in 1973. He graduated from the School of Graphic Design of the National University of Colombia in 1996, and became a graphic designer. He started by custom-designing fonts and by making typefaces for his own company, Casa Papelera El Cedro (The Cedar Papermaking House), for printing invitation cards. With other designers like Carlos Fabián Camargo, John Vargas and César Puertas he formed Tipográfico in 2007 to strengthen the type discipline in Colombia. Corradine Fonts is Manuel Corradine's own foundry in Bogotá, Colombia, founded in 2006.

Fonts from 2007: Kidwriting (a family which includes Kidwriting Dingbats 1 and 2), Garabata (a fantastic handwriting face), Garabata Dingbats, Hexagona Digital, Quadrat (grunge), Quadrat Old (grunge), Quadrat Dirty (grunge), Quadrat Broken, Quadrat Ugly, Neogot (experimental, 8 styles).

Fonts from 2008: Mucura (handwriting), Prissa (handwriting), Salpicon (a script), Cuento Serif (a bouncy handprinted family), Memoria (brush script), Charco, Happy Day (comic book family with Happy Day Dingbats), Espectro (a swinging script with swashes and a Dingbats style), Furia (handwriting), Candelaria (based on house signs in the La Candelaria neighborhood of Bogotá), Old Village (1600's style), Old Village Ornaments, Rapidda (a successful simulation of quick handwriting), Hueca (an outline children's script), Antigua (an old swashbuckler family), Colegial (a great-looking hand script), Pincel (a fantastic paint brush family with accompanying splatter dingbats), Trazo (Corradine's handwriting), Arcos (a techno family), Caveman (a primitive stone-look type family), Rumba (two styles; an elegant flowing brush script), Parche (graffiti family), Elegance Monoline (a greeting card script face that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008), Abuelito (script).

Fonts from 2009: Helga (flowing script), Mussica (+Swash, +Antiqued, a delicate Victorian face), Guarapo (handprinted), Toxic (futuristic stencil), Emotion (comic book face), Bloque 3D, Rock and Cola, Betco's Hand, Telefante (comic book family), Nancy's Hand (more comic book hand-printing), Alambre (multiline/paperclip), Sensual (calligraphic hand), Zape (in the style of Tekton), Antrax Tech (grunge), Masato (handwriting), Hu Kou (oriental simulation).

Fonts fgrom 2010: Miel (a curly script), Oferta (a signage script), Corradine Handwriting, Alberto (connected hand), Changua (handprinted).

Fonts from 2011: Plebeya (2011, connected hand), Mimi's Hand Connected, Legendaria (an extensive connected calligraphic family).

Fonts from 2012: Official (a simple monoline sans family), Eterea (a roman all-caps family), Eterea LC (the lower case set).

Klingspor link. MyFonts link. Font Squirrel link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Crave
[Lyndon Povey]

Crave Ltd is a foundry in London that is run by Lyndon Povey the Ingoldisthorpe, Norfolk, UK-based designer who specializes in labels for whiskey, vodka and gin bottles. Povey designed the nearly Victorian font family Boatbuilder (2012). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dan X. Solo: Digitizations by Dick Pape
[Dick Pape]

Dick Pape based the following digitizations (2008-2010) on images and typefaces published by Dover (including faces by Dan X. Solo): Amorette1889, ArabesqueDesign, CelticDesignDark, CelticDesigns-Light, ChiswickPressGothicInitials, Cowboy&WesternClipsB, DXSAlphaMidnight, DXSAlphaTwilight, DXSBeans-Bold, DXSBlackline, DXSBobo-Bold, DXSBust, DXSCharger, DXSCheckmate, DXSCorral, DXSDudleyPNarrow, DXSFatCat, DXSFestival, DXSFuturaInline, DXSGrooviestGothic, DXSHessNeobold, DXSHotline, DXSJoyceBlack, DXSLampoon, DXSMonogramStencil, DXSOrbit, DXSPickfair, DXSPolly, DXSPrismania'C', DXSPrismania'P', DXSQuote, DXSRhythmBold, DXSRickyTick, DXSRoco, DXSShadyDeal, DXSSheetSteel, DXSTester, DXSTulo, DXSTuxedo, DXSUrban, DXSVeronica, DXSYagiBold, DXSYagiDouble, DXSZany, DXSZephyr, DoverAncientEgyptianDesign, DoverChineseFolkDesigns1, DoverChineseFolkDesigns2, DoverChineseFolkDesigns3, DoverChineseFolkDesigns4, DoverOldFashionAlphabet, DoverOrnaments-A, DoverOrnaments-B, DoverOrnaments-C, DoverOrnaments-D, DoverOrnaments-E, DoverOrnaments-F, DoverOrnaments-G, DoverOrnaments-H, DoverSilhouettes-A, DoverSilhouettes-B, DoverSilhouettes-C, DoverSilhouettes-D, DoverSilhouettes-E, DoverSilhouettes-F, DoverSilhouettes-G, DoverSilhouettes-H, EarlyScrollAlphabet, EarlySignboards, EnglandInitials1880, ErhardDatdolt, Floral-Motifs-SinglePlants, FloralMotifs-Borders, FloralMotifs-Branches, FloralMotifs-CommonFlora, FloralMotifs-Corners-Borders, FloralMotifs-NamePlaceHolders, FloralMotifs-Ornaments, FloralMotifs-TallFlorals, GothicChancery1880s, GothicClosedLetter, JudendstilAlphabet, LilyoftheValley, Papillon1760, RomaineMidolline, SilhouetteInitials1880, TheTerrorsofNightLife, VerzierteAltGothic, VictoriaGingerbread1890. [Google] [More]  ⦿

DanBetty Studio

DBS is a multidisciplinary visual design studio based between Brussels, Paris and Bordeaux. They are selling three commercial typefaces, Harring Stone (2011, squarish modernist), Aert Deck (2011, Victorian), and Qlacic (2011, more Victorian fare). Qlacic is attributed to Tom Haas.

At Dafont, one can download Art Deck. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Danielle Quast Tostes

Designer in Sao Paulo, Brazil. During her studies at SENAC, she created the warm serif typeface Humbond Regular (2012) and the Victorian display face Deffugia (2012). in addition, she created Adventure Game Icons (2011) and Alien Pictogram Set (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dani's Delusions
[Dani Foster Herring]

Free fonts designed by Dani Foster Herring: Snowy Caps, the bird nest dingbat font ForTheBirds, VictorianAngels (elaborate caps), Sleigh Ride (1999), WeGiveThanks (Thanksgiving bats), Christmas Cheer, Fisher's Women, Pika Pika, Winter Wonderland, Tea Time, Harbour Lights. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dave Parr

Designer at Letterhead Fonts of Grindle (blackletter), Squeezebox (Victorian) and United Cigar (more Victorian fare). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dave Smith

Designer at Letterhead Fonts of the Victorian age display faces LHF Doc Terwilligers (2007), Factory, LHF Chapman (2007) and English Rose (2006) and of the roman inscription face LHF Melissa (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Cohen

Squid (aka Dave Cohen) is a font designer, sculptor, illustrator and musician. He has executed hundreds of prototypes for the toy, ceramics and gift industries, such as tiki mugs. Squid's fonts are published exclusively by Sideshow Foundry. You can see his other musings at SquidArt. Google Font Directory link. With Stuart Sandler, he created the wooden plank look font Bamboozle (2008, Sideshow), the whacky comic book typefaces Goofball (2008), Weird Bill (2008, with Stuart Sandler), Weirdbats (2008, with Stuart Sandler), Doinky, Doinky Inline (multiline version of Doinky) and Doinkbats (2008), Zombie Rot (2010, with Stuart Sandler), Squidtoonz (2010, a comic book face done with Stuart Sandler), Motobats (2010, with Stuart Sandler), Skritchy (2010, a sketch font done with Stuart Sandler), Kitchenbats (2010, with Stuart Sandler), Beachcomber (2009, a wooden plank style face; with Stuart Sandler), Beachbats (2010, with Stuart Sandler), Office Blogger (2010, with Stuart Sandler, handprinted), Western Dressing (2010, with Stuart Sandler), Canned Corn (2010, with Stuart Sandler).

In 2010, as Wisconsin-based Sideshow, he placed a number of free fonts at the Google Directory, all mostly hand-drawn faces: Walter Turncoat, Unkempt, Sunshiney, Slackey, Kranky (blackboard bold), Irish Growler (comic book style), Irish Grover, Chewy (bubblegum face), Rock Salt.

Faces from 2011 at Sideshow: Rancho Deluxe (with Stuart Sandler), Creepster Pro (with Stuart Sandler), Permanent Marker Pro, Rochester (a Victorian upright connected script).

In 2012, David Cohen and Stuart Sandler published these faces at Neapolitan: Irish Grover Pro (2010, a bouncy face), Satisfy Pro (2011, a connected retro script face), and Slackey Pro (2010, a paper cut out style face).

Typefaces made in 2012: Mystery Quest (a curly Victorian and/or psychedelic typeface that is free at Google Web Fonts), Seaweed Script (Google Web Fonts).

Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

David Occhino Design (was: Treehouse Graphic Design)
[David A. Occhino]

Treehouse Graphic Design was David Occhino's font outlet. It is now called David Occhino Design. The Treehouse collection specialized in Startrek, futuristic, Disney and Indiana Jones style fonts, but has widened lately. Most fonts are commercial, but there are a few free ones:

• Exclusive Designs: Tangaroa (2009, tiki font), TradeWind, Nautilus, Graviton, Voyager, Cinema, Firefly, Forest, Emblem.
• Signage faces: Craftsmen (2010), Craftsmen Ornaments (2010).
• Movie Fonts: Safari (1996, based on the famous Indiana Jones movie logo created by Mike Salisbury and David Willardson; version 2 in 2011), Venture, Astro, Galax-E, Time Travel, Iron Hero, Knight, Blade, Aeronaut (1997, avant-garde).
• Art Deco Fonts: Aeronaut (1997; Aeronaut 2.0 in 2011), Cinema, Pan-Pacific (2010: based on the classic 1940s lettering style that was used for the signage for the famous Pan-Pacific Auditorium).
• Theme Park Fonts: Kingdom (1996, blackletter), Mansion, Encounter, World.
• Sci-Fi Fonts: Astro SE, Basestar, Blade, Encounter, Galax-E, Graviton, Nautilus, Time Travel, Voyager.
• Halloween Fonts: Hocus Pocus, Nautilus, Mansion 3.0 (1996-2009), MansionCryptBats (2009, free).
• Education Fonts: School.
• Free Fonts: Aurebesh, Forbidden Eye, Tangaroa Glyphs (Hawaiian petroglyphs, 2009), World Symbols, Big Thunder Dingbats (2009: Western dingbats).
• Western fonts: Big Thunder (2009).
• Fonts I can no longer find: Aurebesh, DNealianArrows, DNealianGuides, DNealianRegular, Starspeeder, StarspeederUpright, Pyramid's Venture, Victorian Mansion.

Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Denise Bayers

Designer of the 19th century (Victorian) display face Euphoria (2004, Letterhead Fonts) and of the Peignot-inspired Charlotte (2004, Letterhead Fonts). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dick Pape: Victorian designs

Dick Pape's Victorian designs include the Jack Daniels logo font faces Jasper Daniels and Jasper Daniels SC (2011), Lynchburg Script (2011) and Motlow Caps (2011). All are free versions of the Jack Daniels series of custom fonts made by Carlos Segura. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dieter Steffmann's Homepage
[Dieter Steffmann]

FontShop was the name of Dieter Steffmann's foundry in Kreuztal, Germany (not to be confused with the FontShop foundry and font vendor). He made about 600 self-proclaimed "old-fashioned" fonts, and among these many Fraktur fonts. His site became too expensive to run, and is now hosted by Typoasis. Alternate URL. Current list of fonts. See also here. New stuff. Fontspace link. A nice essay about Fraktur fonts accompanies the fonts. News. As Dieter puts it: I am not a designer but I add missing letters to public domain fonts in order to get a complete character set and I hint the fonts and create new weigths (shadow, inline etc.) His Christbaumkugeln font, and how it was made. The font families:

• Acorn Initialen, Adine Kirnberg, Albert Text, Alpine, Alte Caps, Alte Schwabacher, Ambrosia, American Text, Aneirin, Angel, Anglican Text, Angular, Ann-Stone, Antique No. 14, Arabella, ArabesqueInitialen (2002), Argos George, Aristokrat Zierbuchstaben (2002), Ariston Script, Art Nouveau Initialen, Attic Antique, Augusta.
• Baldur, Ballade Halbfett (2002, a font originally designed by Paul Renner in 1937), Barock Initialen (2002), Becker, Beckett-Kanzlei, Behrens-Schrift (2002), Belshaw, Belwe (Gotisch, Vignetten), Benjamin Franklin Antique, Berlin Squiggle Condensed, Bernhard Schmalfett, Bier und Wein Vignetten (2002, also based on drawings from the Bauersche Giesserei), Billboard, Bizzaro, Black Forest Text, Blackletter ExtraBold, Blackwood Castle, Breitkopf Fraktur, Bretagne Gaelic, Brian James Bold, Bridgnorth, Broadcast Titling, Broadway Poster, Brock Script.
• Cabaret, Campanile, Camp Fire, Canterbury Old English (blackletter), Cardiff, Cardinal Anglican, Carmen, Carrick Caps, Caslon Antique, Caslon Fette Gotisch, Cavalier, Celtic Frames, Celtic Hand, Challenge, Chelsea, Chopin Script (2000, identical to Polonaise), Christbaumkugeln, Chursächsische Fraktur, Cimbrian, Circus Ornate Caps (2001, Western), Cloister Blackletter, Coaster Black, Coelnische Current Fraktur, Colchester Black, College, Courtrai, Coventry Garden, Cruickshank.
• Davy's Dingbats, Debussy, Decorated Roman Initials (2003), Deutsch Gotisch, Deutsche Zierschrift, Devinne Swash, Digits, Direction, Dobkin Script, Domino, Dover, Driftwood Caps, Due Date, Duerer Gotisch, Duo Dunkel (+Licht), Durwent.
• Easter Bunny, Easter Egg, Eckmann-Schrift, Egyptienne Zierversalien (2002), Ehmcke-FrakturInitialen, Ehmcke-Schwabacher Initialen (2002), Eichenlaub Initialen, Eileen Caps, Eisenbahn (2002, based on train vignettes at Bauersche Giesserei), Elzevier Caps, Enge Holzschrift, English Towne, Epoque, Erbar Initialen, Estelle, Evil of Frankenstein, Express.
• Faktos, Fabliaux, Fancy Card Textura, Fat Freddie, Faustus, Fenwick Woodtype, Fette Deutsche Schrift (2002, a revival of a Rudolf Koch font from 1908), Fette Egyptienne, Fette Haenel Fraktur, Fette Trump (2002, original by Prof. Georg Trump, 1936), FetteKanzlei (2002), FetteSteinschrift (2002), Fette Thannhäuser (2001), Firecat, Flaemische Kanzleischrift, Flowers Initials, Forelle, Fraenkisch (2002), Fraktur Schmuck, Fraktur Shadowed, Frederick Text, Futura Script.
• Gabrielle, Gebetbuch Fraktur, Gebetbuch Initialen, Germania (2001, a revival of the 1903 blackletter face by heinz König called Germania as well), Germania-Versalien, Ganz Grobe Gotisch, Gille Fils Zierinitialen (2002), GingerbreadInitials, Globus, Gloucester Initialen, Gorilla BlackGotenburg A+B (2002), Gothenburg Fraktur, Gotische Initialen, Gotisch Schmuck (2002, Fraktur), Goudy Initialen, Goudy Medieval, Goudy Twenty, Goudy Thirty, Grange, GrenzschInitials, Grusskarten-Gotisch, Gutenberg Textura.
• Haenel Fraktur Fett, Hansa, Hansa Gotisch, Hansen, Happy Easter, Harrowgate, Hazard Signs, Headline Text, Hercules, Herkules, Hermann-Gotisch/a> (2002; after an original by Herbert Thannhaeuser, 1934), Herold (2002), Hippy Stamp, Hoedown, Holla, Holidayfont, Holtzschue, Honey Script (2006), Horror Dingbats, Houtsneeletter, Humboldt Fraktur (2002-2005; after a font by Hiero Rhode, 1938).
• Iglesia Light, Isadora Original.
• Jan Brady, Journal Dingbats, Jahreskreis (seasonal dingbats, 2002), JSL Blackletter Antique, Jugendstil Ornamente (2002).
• Kabinett Fraktur, Kaiserzeit Gotisch, Kanzlei, Kanzlei Initialen (2002), Kalenderblatt Grotesk, Kashmir, Kinder Vignetten (2002), KingsCross, Kinigstein Caps, Klarissa, Kleist Fraktur + Zierbuchstaben (2002), Koch Antiqua, Koch Antiqua Zierbuchstaben (2002), Koch Initialen, Koenigsberg, Koenig-Type (2002; a Jugendstil Fraktur originally designed by Heinz Koenig, 1907-1910), Kohelet, Koloss, Konanur Kaps, Kramer, Krone Bold.
• La Negrita, Lautenbach, Legrand, Lemiesz, Lettres ombrées ornées (2002, based on a face by Schriftgiesserei J. Gillé, 1820), Linolschrift, Lintsec, Liturgisch + Zierbuchstaben (2002), Logger, Lohengrin Fraktur, Long Island Antiqua, Louisianne Black (bold upright connected script), Ludlow Dingbats.
• Mainzer Fette Fraktur, Marker Felt, Marketing Script, Marlboro, Maximilian (2002, Fraktur font and decorated caps based on Rudolf Koch, 1914), Mayflower Antique, Medici, Mediaeval Caps, Menuetto, Messing Lettern, Metropolitain, Middle Saxony Text, Moderne Fraktur, Monats-Vignetten (2002, based on drawings by Franz Franke for Bauersche Giesserei, 1920), Montague, Monument (2002, original by O. Menhart, 1952), Mordred, Morgan Twenty-Nine, Morris Roman Black, Morris Initialen.
• Napoli Initialen, Neptun Gotisch, NeugotischeInitialen, North Face, Nougat ExtraBold, Nouveau Drop Caps, Nubian.
• Olde English, Old English Five, Old Town, Old London.
• Packard Antique, Paganini Text, Pamela, Parsons Heavy, PaulusFranckInitialen (2002), Penelope, Peter Schlehmil (2002, based on work by Walter Tiemann, 1918-1921), Peter Schlemihl Fraktur, Picture Alphabet, Pilsen Plakatschrift, Pinewood (2003, like wooden branches), Pinocchio, Plakat-Fraktur, Plakat Antiqua, Plastisch (2002), Plum Script, Pointage, Polonaise (1999), Polo Semi, Powell Antique, Printer's Ornaments One, Prisma (2003, a four-line face inspired by Rudolf Koch's Prisma), Progressive Text, Puritan, Prince Valiant Blackletter.
• Quentin Caps.
• Rediviva, Rediviva Zierbuchstaben (2002), Reeperbahn (aka Rope), Regatta Relief, Reiner Script, Revue Decor, Reynold Art Deco, Rio Grande, Rockmaker, Roland, Rolling No. 1 ExtraBold, Roman Antique, Romantik Initialen, Romantiques (2002), Rondo, RosemaryRoman, Roslyn Contour, Rossano, Rothenburg Fraktur, Royal Initialen, Roycroft Initialen, Rudelsberg (Munich Jugendstil style, based on Otto Eckmann's Eckmann from 1901).
• Saddlebag, Saloon ExtraBold, Saltino, Salto, Sans Plate Caps, San Remo (Paris (art) nouveau style), Savings Bond, Schampel Black, Schmalfette Fraktur, Schluss-Vignetten (2002, also from Bauersche Giesserei), Schmale Anzeigenschrift + Zierbuchstaben (2002), Schwabacher, Sebaldus-Gotisch (2002), Sentinel, Sesame (2000), Shaded (2002, a take on Sans Serif Shaded by Stephenson, Blake & Co. Ltd., Sheffield), Sholom, Showboat Caps, Shrapnel, Siegfried, Simplex, Sixties, Snowtop Caps, Starburst, Steelplate Textura, Stencil Display, Subway, Supermarkt.
• Tanach, Tannenberg Fette Gotisch, Thannhaeuser Fette Fraktur, Thannhäuser Zier (2002; original by Herbert Thannhauser, 1937/38), Theuerdank Fraktur, Thorne Shaded (2002), Tierkreiszeichen (2002, Zodiac, based on drawings by Franz Franke for Bauersche Giesserei), Tintoretto, Titania, Titling Roman Antique, Tobago Poster, Tone And Debs, Tonight, Topic, ToskanischeEgyptienneInitialen (2003), Transport Pictorials, Tribeca, Trocadero Caps, Trucker Style ExtraBlack, Turtles, Typographer Caps, Typographer Fraktur (2002), Typographer Rotunda (2002), Typographer Textur (2002, Fraktur), TypographerGotisch (2002, Fraktur), TypographerWoodcutInitials (2002), Typographer's Schmuck-Initialen.
• Uechi Gotisch, Uncialis Deutsche, Unger Fraktur Zierbuchstaben, Unicorn.
• Vadstena Rundgotisch, Varah Caps, Ventura Bold, Verve, VictorianInitials, Victorian Text, Viking, Vivian, Vogeler Initialen (2002), Volute.
• Walbaum Fraktur, Wallau Deutsch, Wallau Rundgotisch, Wallau Uncial and Wallau Zierbuchstaben (2002; originals by Rudolf Koch 1925-1930), Walthari Text, Washington Text, Waterloo Relief, Wave, Weiß Initialen, Weiss Lapidar (2002, revival of a face by Emil Rudolf Weiss), Werbedeutsch (2002, original by Herbert Thannhaeuser, 1934), Westminster Gotisch, Wharmby, White Bold, Wieynk Fraktur (now also in OpenType), Wieynk Vignetten, Will-Harris Caps, Woodcut.
• Yellow Submarine Font, Yonkers, Yorktown.
• Zallman Caps, Zentenar Fraktur, Zentenar Zier (2002; by F.H.E. Schneidler, 1937), Zierinitialen 1 (2002), Zierinitialen Two (2002; based on Deutsche Zierschrift by Rudolf Koch), Ziffern und Pfeile, Zither Script, Zodiac Pictorials.

A set of TeX service files for many of the decorative caps fonts was published by Maurizio Loreti from the University of Padova.

The collection is now also available in OpenType. Fontsquirrel link. Dafont link. Fontspace link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dixie's Delights
[Michelle Dixon]

This used to be a wonderful page, but Michelle Dixon seems to have retired from the font making business. There used to be five shareware dingbats fonts: African Ornaments One, Cave Painting Dingbats One, Mayan Dingbats, Pre-Columbian Ornaments One, and Printers' Ornaments One (Mac PS), plus about 45 other original fonts (not shareware). In her wonderful collection, the following of Michelle Dixon's creations stand out: Arrighi Copybook, ItalianMosaicOrnaments, Beautiful, LondonHouse, Love Letter Typewriter, Gaudy Medium, Rusty Nail-Medium (the last four are all old typewriter fonts), and the display fonts Isla Bella, La Negrita, Arty Nouveau, Victorian, Art Nouveau Fonts, Bad Dog-Black, Berlin, Caslon Frenzy, Dixon's Vixens Caps, AntiqueMonoTW, DangerousTypoWriter, Elegant Nouveau Initial Caps, Fruitbasket, Matador, Manhattan, Modern Scribe, Ovid, Spillage, Tacos, Tolstoy, Typewriter, Love Letter, Basketcase, ChiliPepperDingbats, Postage Stamps, Garish Monde, Taco Modern, and Beautiful Ink. All fonts are between 5 and 30 dollars a piece, but often there are four fonts per face. In August 98, the absolutely gorgeous calligraphic font Beautiful Ink became available as a 10USD shareware font in Windows TrueType. Check also here. Many designs by Blake Haber. Located in Santa Barbara, CA. Dafont link. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Douglas Day

Creator of Bracelet (Tuscan Ornate, Victorian) New&Old in 2001. He states: Scanned from Tschichold's "Treasury of Alphabets and Lettering" (Norton) and painstakingly digitized. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Downwind

Downwind is an unesthetic Victorian negatively tilted display face. Various similar faces exist: Alfereta (Dan X. Solo: some say it is originally due to Seymour Chwast in the photo-letteriung era, but Dan X. Solo's catalog states that it due to Manhattan Type Foundry), Voco Script (SSI/SSK), Layla (Silver Graphics), Funky Face (WSI/IMSI). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eduard Scholz

Typefounder in Vienna around 1900. His work includes the art nouveau post-Victorian faces Reklameschrift Secession and Zierschrift Monopol. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Face Type
[Marcus Sterz]

Austrian foundry located in Vienna, est. in 2008 by Marcus Sterz (b. 1971) and Andrej Waldegg. MyFonts link. Unless exlicitly mentioned, all typefaces are by Marcus Sterz. You Work For Them link.

• Aldrans (2009, minimal sans).
• Anymals (2008) is one of my favorites: it has dingbats of imaginary undersea monsters.
• Asimov (2009). What is this?
• Baustelle Thin (2009, hairline sans).
• Bikra (2010, Plain and Stencil).
• Blitzplakat (2009). A poster face, white on black.
• Darjeeling (2010) is a display family inspired by both Optima and Bodoni.
• Doll (2008), Dollbats (2008).
• Flint (2008). A hand-drawn squarish face.
• Gerber (2009, pixel face).
• Grafinc (2009). An ultra fat art deco. See also Grafinc Rounded.
• Hausbau (2009, experimental).
• Idrans Medium (2010). A poster face.
• With Georg Herold-Wildfellner, he created the Victorian family Ivory in 2009.
• Letterpress (2009) is an experimental grungy family in which he mixes glyphs of three classics, Jakob Erbar's Phosphor (Ludwig&Mayer Foundry, ca. 1923), Aurora (1912, Johannes Wagner Foundry) and Permanent Headline or simply Headline (Karlgeorg Hoefer).
• Lignette Script (2011) is an extensive loopy monoline script font.
• Loki (2009). A decorative pixel family.
• The Marlowe family (2010) is pure art deco elegance---a play on geometric forms and elegance. Subfamilies include Marlowe Cocktail and Marlowe Swirl.
• Moki (2011).
• Motto (2009). An art deco face in the style of the Italian Futurismo of the 1920s, designed for using with two colors.
• Mouse (2008-2009, pixel), Mousedings (2008).
• Notdef (2009). A strange experiment.
• The handwriting face Palma (2008).
• Pinback (2009, techno).
• Scrap Outline (2008).
• Slug (2009). A geometric face made for bicoloring.
• Status (2009, super fat art deco).
• Strangelove Next (2010). This beautiful typeface was inspired by Stanley Kubrick's movie Dr. Strangelove. The original titles where designed by Pablo Ferro, who is one of the most acclaimed film title designers, especially famous for his hand-drawn lettering. Dr. Strangelove is a hairline face.
• Wenzel (2009). Handprinted.

Facetype's typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Fiodor Sumkin

Byelorussian illustrator who fled his country when he was 18 years old. He sold paintings in Moscow and now lives in Amsterdam. His drawings are straight out of the 19th century, ornamental and playful. He is also inspired by the psychedelic lettering of the 1960s. Discussion of his work by Coles. Typefaces, all made or drawn in 2006-2007: Rodopi, Fashion Condensed, Farringdon, Hopkins, Rondell (Western style face), Abramesque (ornamental caps), Mansard Trimmed (19th century emulation), Wedlock, Silverado, Shimmer Wide (cyrillic), Mona (extra-wide slab serif), Flirt Chloe (more 19th century ornamental glyphs), Jubilee (constructivist cyrillic lettering), Big Cyrillic pixels (many great pixelized alphabets), Cuba, Gingerbread (Victorian), and St. Clair. Alternate URL. Check out his gorgeous country maps designed for the aeroflot in-flight magazine in 2008. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fonderie Française

French foundry. Designers of some beautiful often didone faces, such as the fat face Liliom. They also produced well-known Victorian decorated capitals under the names Romantiques No. 1 through 5. The Egyptian faces are called just that, Egyptiennes (Narrow, Bold, Italic). Henry Chaix made the display roman face Editor in 1937. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fontek (Letraset Fontek)

Collection of typefaces at Letraset. Newest faces include Donaldson Hand (Tim Donaldson), La Gioconda (based on letters from Giovanni Francesco Cresci, done by Richard Dawson and Dave Farey), Spidercave (Michael Gills), Locomotiv (Phill Grimshaw), Bobbysox (Alan Dempsey), Bouchon (Roselyne and Michel Besnard), Eplica (Yvonne Diedrich), Uffington (Tim Donaldson). The collection is now also sold at Veer. The names: Aachen Bold, Aachen Medium, Academy Engraved, Agincourt, Algerian Condensed, Ambrose, Aquinas, Aquitaine Initials, Aristocrat, Arriba, Arriba-Arriba, Artiste, Augustea Open, Avalanche Script, Avenida, Axis Bold, Balmoral, Bang, Banner, Becka Script, Belwe Mono, Belwe Mono Italic, Bendigo, Bergell, Bertie, Bertram, Bible Script, Bickley Script, Bitmax, Blackmoor, Bluntz, Bobbysox, Boink, Bordeaux Display, Bordeaux Family, Bordeaux Italic, Bordeaux Roman, Bordeaux Roman Bold, Bordeaux Script, Bouchon Bold, Bouchon Light, Brighton Bold, Brighton Light, Brighton Medium, Bronx, Burlington, Buzzer 3, Cabaret, Cabarga Cursiva, Campaign, Cancellaresca Script, Carlton, Carumba, Caslon 540 Ital/Swash, Caxton Light Italic, Caxton Roman Bold, Caxton Roman Book, Caxton Roman Light, Chalkline Bold, Challenge Bold, Challenge Extra Bold, Champers, Charlotte Bold, Charlotte Book, Charlotte Book Italic, Charlotte Family, Charlotte Medium, Charlotte Sans Bold, Charlotte Sans Book, Charlotte Sans Book Italic, Charlotte Sans Family, Charlotte Sans Medium, Charlotte Sans Small Caps, Charlotte Small Caps, Chiller, Chipper, Choc, Chromium One, Citation, Claude Sans, Claude Sans Bold Italic, Claude Sans Italic, Collins, Comedy, Commercial Script, Compacta, Compacta Bold, Compacta Italic, Coptek, Corinthian Bold, Corinthian Bold Condensed, Corinthian Light, Corinthian Medium, Crillee Bold Italic, Crillee Extra Bold Italic, Crillee Italic, Crillee Italic Inline Shadow, Cult, Dancin', Data 70, Dave Farey Display Fonts, David Quay Display Fonts, David Quay Scripts, Demian, Demian Bold, Design Font Attitudes, Design Font Calligraphic Ornaments, Design Font Celebrations, Design Font Commercials, Design Font Delectables, Design Font Diversions, Design Font Diversities, Design Font Eclectics, Design Font Energetics, Design Font Expressions, Design Font Incidentals, Design Font Industrials, Design Font Inspirations, Design Font Journeys, Design Font Mo' Funky Fresh Symbols, Design Font Moderns, Design Font Naturals, Design Font Organics, Design Font Organics II, Design Font Primitives, Design Font Radicals, Design Font Urbans, Design Font Well Beings, Design Font Wildlife, Digitek, Dolmen, Donaldson Hand, Doodlebug, Dynamo Shadow, Edwardian Medium, Elysium Bold, Elysium Book, Elysium Book Italic, Elysium Family, Elysium Medium, Elysium Small Caps, Emphasis, Enviro, Eplica Bold, Eplica Bold Italic, Eplica Book, Eplica Book Italic, Eplica Family, Eplica Medium, Eplica Medium Italic, Epokha, Equinox, Etruscan, Faithful Fly, Fashion Compressed No. 3, Fashion Engraved, Figural Bold, Figural Book, Figural Book Italic, Figural Family, Figural Medium, Figural Small Caps, Fine Hand, Flamenco Inline, Flamme, Flight, Fling, Follies, Forest Shaded, Frances Uncial, Frankfurter, Frankfurter Highlight, Frankfurter Inline, Frankfurter Medium, Freestyle Script, Freestyle Script Bold, Gigi, Gilgamesh Bold, Gilgamesh Book, Gilgamesh Book Italic, Gilgamesh Family, Gilgamesh Medium, Gilgamesh Small Caps, Gilgamesh Titling, Gill Display Compressed, Gill Kayo Condensed, Gillies Gothic Extra Bold Shaded, Glastonbury, Globale, Globale Bold, Globale Bold Italic, Globale Family, Globale Italic, Goo Goo Gjoob, Gravura, Green, Greyton Script, Hadfield, Hand Drawn, Harlow, Harlow Solid, Harvey, Hazel, Heliotype, Helvetica Bold Condensed, Helvetica Medium Condensed, Highlight, Hollyweird, Ignatius, Impakt, Indy Italic, Informal Roman, Inscription, Iris, Isis, Jazz, John Handy, Jokerman, Kanban, Katfish, Katytude, Klee, La Bamba, La Gioconda, La Gioconda Bold, Lambada, Laser, Laser Chrome, Latino Elongated, Laura, LCD, Le Griffe, Lexikos, Lightnin', Limehouse Script, Lino Cut, Locarno Italic, Locarno Light, Locomotiv, Magatama, Malibu, Marguerita, Martin Wait Display Fonts, Martin Wait Scripts, Mastercard, Mekanik, Mekanik Italic, Milano, Mistral, Mo' Funky Fresh, Montage, Neo Neo, Oberon, Odessa, Old English, One Stroke Script, One Stroke Script Bold, One Stroke Script Shaded, Orange, Orlando, Pablo, Papyrus, Party, Pendry Script, Phill Grimshaw Display Fonts, Phoenikia, Pink, Plaza, Pleasure Bold Shaded, Pneuma, Potato Cut, Prague, Premier Lightline, Premier Shaded, Princetown, Pristina, Pritchard, Pritchard Line Out, Pump, Pump Demi Bold, Quadrus, Quixley, Rage Italic, Ragtime, Rapier, Refracta, Regatta Condensed, Retail Script, Retro Bold, Retro Bold Condensed, Riva, Robotik, Robotik Italic, Romic Light, Romic Light Italic, Roquette, Ru'ach, Rubber Stamp, Rundfunk, Santa Fe, Savoye, Scratch, Scriba, Scriptease, Scriptek, Scriptek Italic, Scruff, Shaman, Shatter, Sinaloa, Skid Row, Slipstream, Smack, Smudger, Spidercave Bold, Spidercave Book, Spidercave Book Italic, Spidercave Family, Spidercave Ornamented, Spooky, Spotlight, Squire, Squire Extra Bold, Strobos, Superstar, Synchro, Tag, Tannhauser, Teknik, Telegram, Tiger Rag, Tim Donaldson Display Fonts, Tim Donaldson Scripts, Tiranti Solid, Trackpad, Tropica Script, Twang, Uffington, Ulysses, University Roman, University Roman Bold, University Roman Italic, Van Dijk, Van Dijk Bold, Varga, Vegas, Vermont, Victorian, Victorian Inline Shaded, Vienna Extended, Vivaldi, Wade Sans Light, Wanted, Waterloo Bold, Westwood, Wild Thing, Willow, Xylo, Young Baroque, Zaragoza, Zennor, Zinjaro. 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FontSite
[Sean Cavanaugh]

Online font site run by Sean Cavanaugh (b. Cape May, NJ, 1962) out of Camano Island, WA. This used to be called Title Wave Studios. In the archives, find essays on writing style, rules of typography, and a comparison by Thomas Phinney (program manager of Latin Fonts at Adobe) of T1 and TTF. The Fontsite 500 CD (30 USD) offers 500 classical fonts with the original names, plus a few names I have not seen before, such as Bergamo (=Bembo by Francesco Griffo), Chantilly (=Gill Sans), Gareth (=Galliard), Palladio (=Palatino, Savoy (=Sabon), URWLatino, Unitus, Toxica, Publicity, Plakette, Pericles, Opus (=Optima), Melville, Function, Flanders, Cori Sans, Binner. Uli Stiehl provides proof that many of the fonts at FontSite are rip-offs (identical to) of fonts in Martin Kotulla's collection. Free fonts: Bergamo, CartoGothic (1996-2009), CombiNumerals. At MyFonts, the CombiNumerals Pro and CombiSymbols dingbat families are available since 2010. The site has a number of fonts with the acronym FS in the name, so I guess these are relatively original (but I won't swear on it): Allegro FS, Beton FS, Bodoni Display FS (+ Bold, Demibold), Bodoni No 2 FS (+ Ultra, Bodoni Recut FS (+Bold, Demibold), and so forth. His 500 Font CD has these fonts:

• Garalde, Venetian: Bergamo, Bergamo Expert, Bergamo SC&OsF, Caslon, Caslon Expert, Gareth, Garamond, Garamond Expert, Garamond SC&OsF, Garamond Condensed, URW Palladio, URW Palladio Expert, Savoy, Savoy Expert, Savoy Small Caps&OsF, Vendôme.
• Slab Serif: Clarendon, Glytus, Typewriter, Typewriter Condensed.
• Script: Commercial Script, Deanna Script, Deanna Swash Caps, Hudson, Legend, Mistral, Park Avenue, Phyllis, Phyllis Swash Caps, Vivaldi.
• Uncial: American Uncial, Rosslaire.
• Blackletter: Fette Fraktur, Fette Gotisch, Olde English.
• Borders and symbols: Celtic Borders, Deanna Borders, Deanna Flowers, Picto, Sean's Symbols.
• Transitional: URW Antiqua, Baskerville, Baskerville Expert, New Baskerville.
• Didone, modern: Bodoni, Bodoni Expert, Bodoni Small Caps&OsF, Modern 216, Walbaum.
• Sans serif: Chantilly, Franklin Gothic, Franklin Gothic Condensed, Franklin Gothic Cnd. SC&OsF, Function, Function Small Caps&OsF, Function Condensed, Goudy Sans, Opus, Opus Small Caps&OsF, Syntax, Letter Gothic.
• Decorative: Ad Lib, Algerian, Arnold Boecklin, Binner, Caslon Antique, Chromatic, Copperplate Gothic, Davida, Delphian Open Titling, Function Display, Glaser Stencil, Goudy Handtooled, Handel Gothic, Hobo, Honeymoon, Horndon, Mercedes, Mona Lisa, OCR-A&OCR-B, Plakette, Reflex, Salut, Stop, Toxica, VAG Rounded.

Franck Trebillac

Designer in London. Behance link. In 2011, he designed the Victorian era advertizing face Absinthe.

Klingspor link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Freda Sack

Prolific British designer (b. 1951). Fonts: Proteus EF (1983), University EF Roman (1984), Paddington (1977), Jenson Old Style EF (with Colin Brignall, 1982), Victorian EF (with Colin Brignall, 1976). Co-founded The Foundry with David Quay. Other designs: Foundry Architype Bayer (unicase font, The Foundry, 1996), Ignatius (1987), Caslon 540 Italic with Swashes (1981), Orlando (1986), University Roman Italic (1984), Promotor (1983), and Vermont (1987). FontShop link. Linotype link. Catalog of some of her digitized typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Freeman Gage Delamotte

Author, artist, photographer and wood engraver, b. Sandhurst, 1814, d. London, 1862. He published The Book of Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediaeval (1879, Crosby Lockwood and Co., London), which has plenty of 8th to 11th century alphabets and initials. See also here, here, and here. Another book is Examples of Modern Alphabets, Ornamental and Plain (1864, C. Lockwood and Co, London), which was scanned in and can now be downloaded for free. Further texts: The book of ornamental alphabets, ancient and modern, from the eighth to the nineteenth century, with numerals (1859, E. and F.N. Spon), Medieval alphabets and intials for illuminators (1861, E. and F.N. Spon), and A primer of the art of illumination for the use of beginners (1860, E. and F.N. Spon). Most of his lettering is typical of the Victorian tradition that adds ornament to simple silhouettes. Example: 16th century wood engaving. An Italian alphabet (1864). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Furdzville
[Brian Powers]

Great free fonts made by Brian Powers (Furdzville): BrianPowersDoodleNormal (very funny), BrianPowersDoodle21, ChangelingDingbats, Nocker (curly Victorian typeface), NockerCranky, Plok, RedcapBloodthirsty, SatyrPassionate (1998, Greek simulation face), SidheNoble, SluaghCreepy, TMBGJohnHenry, TMBGSevereTireDamage, TrollOathbound (1992).

Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gage LaGreca

Anderson, SC-based creator (b. 1991) of the Victorian typeface Quest (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

GalloFonts (was: Graphics by Gallo)
[Gerald Gallo]

GalloFonts is part of Graphics by Gallo, founded in 1974 by Gerald Gallo (b. Lucernemines, PA, 1941), and based in Bethesda, MD. GalloFonts sells all of its 80 fonts to you for 200USD via MyFonts (see also here). The fonts: Display University (2005, athletic lettering), Angulatte Light, Angulatte Medium, Angulatte Bold, Anniversary Seals (2003), Basic Bullets, Blooming Ornaments (2008), Brashee Regular, Brashee Bold, Calendar Font One, Calendar Font Two, Calendar Font Three, Carved Initials, Chiseled Initials, Cleancut, Dexterous (2010, art nouveau), Diamond Monogram - 2 Characters, Diamond Monogram - 3 Characters, Display Black Serif (2010, angular), Display Dots Five (2010), Display Dots Six (2010), Display Grungy (2010), Display Robust (2010), Dooddle, Embossed Shallow, Embossed Medium, Embossed Deep, GG Casual Light (2002, was Gallo Casula: hand printing family), GG Casual Medium, GG Casual Bold, GG Dingbats (was Gallo Dingbats, like Zapf Dingbats), GG Serif (1993, was Gallo Serif), Geometric Arrows, Geometric Ornaments, Gnarlee, Greetings, Home Sweet Home, Isometric Initial Caps - Bird's Eye View (1994), Isometric Initial Caps - Worm's Eye View, Isometric Ornaments, Jackolantern Assortment (2002) Just Bugs, Kruede Light, Kruede Regular (handwriting), Kruede Bold, Leaf Assortment (1994), Leaves Falling, Logotype, Magnificent Ornaments (2006, Victorian era decorations), Make Tracks (2002, animal footprints), Number Ornaments, Numbers 0-99 Style One - Circle Negative, Numbers 0-99 Style One - Circle Positive, Numbers 0-99 Style One - Diamond Negative, Numbers 0-99 Style One - Diamond Positive, Numbers 0-99 Style One - Square Negative, Numbers 0-99 Style One - Square Positive, Numbers 0-99 Style Two - Circle Negative, Numbers 0-99 Style Two - Circle Positive, Numbers 0-99 Style Two - Diamond Negative, Numbers 0-99 Style Two - Diamond Positive, Numbers 0-99 Style Two - Square Negative, Numbers 0-99 Style Two - Square Positive, Numbers 0-99 Style Three - Circle Negative, Numbers 0-99 Style Three - Circle Positive, Numbers 0-99 Style Three - Diamond Negative, Numbers 0-99 Style Three - Diamond Positive, Numbers 0-99 Style Three - Square Negative, Numbers 0-99 Style Three - Square Positive, Ornate Initials - Style One (2002), Ornate Initials - Style Two, Ornate Initials - Style Three, Pleasant Hand Light (2002) Pleasant Hand Medium, Pleasant Hand Bold, Precision, Rolling Ball Cursive, Serene (1993), Slender, Smiling Faces, Snowflake Assortment (1994), Snowflakes Falling (2001), Sport Numbers, Star Assortment (2002), Stature (2010, compressed sans), Swiss Folk Ornaments - Critters&Things, Swiss Folk Ornaments - Floral, Swiss Folk Ornaments - Geometric, Time Clocks, Woozee, Display Prominent (2005), Ultimate Ornaments (2005), Cross Ornaments (2005), Heraldic Creatures (2006), Victorian Leaf Ornaments (2006: great!), Quilt Patterns One (2007), Holy Ornaments (2007), Oriental Ornaments (2007), Gothic Initials One through Six (2007-2008), Interlaced Ornaments (2007), Modest Ornaments (2008), Art Nouveau Flowers (2008), Art Nouveau Ornaments (2008), Quilt Patterns Two (2008), Display Gothic (2008, blackletter), Plant Assortment (2008), Birds Flying (2009), Happy Go Lucky (2009, Victorian), Fish Fresh (2009), Display Dots One (2009, dot matrix face), Display Art Two and Three (2009, art nouveau alphabets), Display Dots Two Serif and Sans (2009, dot matrix faces), Display Dots Three Serif and Sans (2009), Display Dots Four Serif and Sans (2009), Display Robust (2010), Quilt Patterns Three and Four (both 2009), Gothic Initials (Seven, Eight, Nine: 2009), Carefreed (2009, a Halloween script?), Glorita (2009, casual condensed sans), Fancy Flowers (2010), Rectilinear Ornaments (2010), Display Brutal (2010, grunge), Cross Stitch Graceful (2010), Cross Stitch Regal (2011), Cross Stitch Formal (2010), Cross Stitch Discreet (2010), Cross Stitch Classic (2010), Display Dots Seven (2011), Cross Stitch Majestic (2011), Cross Stitch Elaborate (2011), Cross Stitch Medieval (2011), Display Squares One and Two (2011, gridded or dot matrix faces), Display Digits One through Seven (2011), Display Crisp (2012, octagonal), Blue on Blue (2012, shadow face), Green on Green (2012, 3d shadow face), White on White (2012), Orange on Orange (2012, a 3d shadow face), Victorian Ornaments (2012). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Gary Godby

Sign designer. He made the Victorian signage font families Tyler (2003), Palmer and Dixie at Letterhead. Tyler was inspired by E.L. Brown who taught penmanship and engrossing in the late 1800's. He designed Brien in 2003, based on lettering by Iskra Johnson. At SignDNA, he published the script face Monika. Letterhead had this bio: Gary Godby's career as a sign artist has spanned nearly 28 years. He has worked in commercial sign shops in Virginia and Florida. While in Florida he spent thirteen years at Disney's in-house sign shop. In 1995 he returned to his native Virginia to work for Graphic Services, Inc., a large commercial shop in Manassas. Graphic Services is a full service sign and display company that primarily works for builders and developers. The shop employs 42 people with Gary's primary role as designer. "When you're designing," Gary says, "you see a project go from concept to reality, and I get alot of gratification out of that." [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gene Buban

Gene Buban (aka geneus1) is the creative and prolific designer at FontStruct in 2008-2009 of these faces:

• Aerologica (2009): 3-d headline face.
• Alphadings: DeTracks.
• Altitudinus (2010).
• Amplifica (+Carved, 2010).
• Arkham Bloodletters (2008).
• bay6
• Bauhaus style: Slink (2009) is a tribute to Josef Albers---one could also call it a piano key font. Codename Bauhaus (2010).
• Arc Brick 1:1 and 2:2 (2010).
• Bevelicious (2009): 3d shadow face.
• Bezziaiare (2010): an imitation of Futura.
• Brikd is a fantastic headline face.
• Bubble Lab EF (2008) and Bubble Lab Bang (2008): dingbat fonts.
• Calligraphique (2010).
• ChequereBoard (2008): a 3d face.
• Christmas fonts: Kallosia Decorative (2009, blackletter), Snowflakes (2009).
• Clone War (2008).
• code2
• Codename Bauhaus (2010).
• Country Fried (Western style)
• Decorata (stylized art deco)
• Didone fonts: Legality (2009, sharply serifed), Petrissage (2009).
• Dingbats: DeTrayne (graffiti-clad trains), Happy Halloween (2009).
• Egalite (2010): a blackletter face.
• ElSeeDee (2008, white on a black grid, inspired by the baggage claim LED scrolling message system at the Oakland Airport)
• Effleurage (2009).
• Eurostijl (2008)
• Exersia, Excursia
• Ferno (hell?)
• filmstryp
• Flameon (2008) is a vertically striped athletic lettering font.
• Fluoralei (2008) and Fluoralyte (2008) are all caps floral-themed typefaces.
• Futuro (2008) and Futuro Extra Bold (2008).
• Futurity Watch (2009).
• Framestore (2008).
• Gappy and Gappy LC (2010).
• Geolateral
• Glossierre (2009).
• Graffikki (2010): graffiti face.
• Hammerslab (2008) is a very thick heavy slab serif face.
• Happy Halloween (2008): Halloween dingbats.
• HellStruct (2008): flamed letters.
• hollo, holloback, holloblack
• HulkSmash has the look of cracked concrete blocks---has to be seen to be believed!
• HyperLynk (2010).
• Indiglo (2010).
• Interblok Cylindrome (2011) and Interblok Stroke (2009): labyrinthine / Celtic knot / texture faces.
• IronManic (2008, letters resemble armor steel plates with bolts)
• IsoMatrix 3D (2009, an Escher deception in 3D), Bevelluzian (2010, 3d beveled checkerboard illusion).
• Jaggs (2010): angular.
• Karuso 68 (2009).
• Leefer is a kitchen tile font.
• Legere (2010, a roman face).
• LegoManiax (2008).
• Modulus and Modulus Black, ultra fat fonts.
• Motternal (2011), a version of Othmar Motter's Motter Tektura.
• Mucro Bold, a heavy metal band font
• Multiverse Diagonality (2009).
• Nontroppo (2010).
• Outlier (2010).
• Paradoxx (2011). Peignotian.
• Periculum (2010): monoline sans.
• pixsle
• Pixsle (2010).
• Predatoric ad Predatoric2 (2010).
• Prikkle (2010): angular.
• Requiemme Decorum (Sept. 14th, 2009): blackletter. He writes: Exactly one year ago two of my cousins, Chris and Cleofe, got into a dealer-loaned Lexus for a trip after their main car was being repaired. Cleofe's husband, a CHP officer, was driving and their teen daughter was along for the ride. While on the freeway, the accelerator became stuck and they lost control of the car. As the runaway vehicle sped up to over 100 mph, all four passengers were killed in a fiery crash in the San Diego River. The loss was unquantifiably devastating. This immensely tragic event led my aunt to testify before congress with damning evidence that would initiate the recall of millions of Toyota vehicles. Requiemme Decorum was created on the way down to southern California for the funeral services. For Chris, Cleofe, Mark, and Mahala, may you all rest in peace and love.
• Renovare (2010, +Renovare S1, S2): a slab serif.
• Roboscript (2008): an upright connected school script.
• Rubrix (2008): a Rubik cube dingbat font.
• Scipio (2010).
• Scribble Not (2010) is a texture face.
• Sequencia (2010).
• sedagive
• Seriface and Seriface 2.0 (2010, a roman all-caps set).
• Sharp-serifed almost modern faces: Legality, Petrissage, Effleurage, Karuso68.
• Sonorous (2010).
• Spartan Tech (2010): inspired by the multiplayer game Halo3.
• Stanley Twobrick (pointy minimalist face)
• Startrek faces: Transformicon (2009).
• Streamlyne (2010, squarish, outlined).
• Structurocca and Structurozza (2009): Horizontally stencilled black faces.
• Tangience and Tangience Solid (2008) are fonts in which the glyphs are built up from circles glued together.
• Tetrisyde
• The Pax Man (2009): metallic whatever.
• Trelief and Trelief Rounded (2010): multilined 3d beveled faces.
• Tubric (2010): counterless.
• Upriteous and Upriteous Black, condensed protestant fonts.
• Victoriana (Victorian caps)
• Wall-F: white squarish letters in black circles
• Waverly, with scary pointed barbs like on German WWI helmets.
• Weaver (Celtic knot-themed letters)
• Xerro (2010): like Helvetica.
• Yeomamuh, a fat look face.
• Wypeout (2010)

Georg Herold-Wildfellner

Codesigner with Marcus Sterz at FaceType of a Victorian type family called Ivory (2009). They state that Ivory is inspired by a beautiful typeface used in an illustrated compendium about pomology from 1882. I did not know what Pomology is but the Urban Dictionary defines a pomosexual (for postmodernism sexual) as an individual who challenges assumptions about gender and sexuality. Now, a pomologist is a fruit tree specialist---that's another thing altogether. He created Aeronaut (2009, FaceType), a textura based on Kirchengotische Schrift, a font that can be found in a German font book from 1879 entitled Vorlegeblätter f&uunl;r Firmenschreiber. Weingut Script (+Ornaments, 2011) is a flourished type family. Mr. Moustache (2011) is a neatly hand-trimmed condensed type family, complete with various sets of ornaments and dingbats. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

George Williams

George Williams's site (now defunct) site was a discovery! George Williams (b. 1959) wrote spline-generating code and then went on to produce several fonts with his software between 1987 and 1998:

• Art nouveau style: Carmen, Ambrosia, Fantaisie Artistique, Baldur, Monopol, Parisian, Peignot, Bocklin, Edda.
• Lombardic: Lombardic.
• Victorian: Caprice, Ringlet.
• Uncial: Uncial Animals, Roman Uncial Modern.
• Ornamental caps: Versal, Decorative, Square Caps, Extravagant Capitals, Floral Caps, Morris, Andrade.
• Display faces: Crystal, Flash, Cupola.
• Blackletter: Rotunda (1998), Bastarda, Textura Modern, Fractur (a remake of Wittenbach).
• Art deco: Piccadilly, Mirage (1999, prismatic).
• Calligraphic: Humanistic.
• Text: Caslon.
• Slab: Monospace.
• Sans: Caliban.
• Bamboo Gothic (2007).
• TIS620-2529 (a Thai font).

George Williams writes: I have been slowly working to provide free unicode postscript fonts for the three major groupings of styles used by european (latin, greek and cyrillic anyway) type designs: serif, sans-serif and typewriter (or times, helvetica and courier). Monospace is my approximation to courier. Close examination will reveal that it is a bad copy of courier. Caslon is a serif font (designed by William Caslon in 1734), it's not a bad copy of times, it's a bad copy of something else. Caliban is a bad copy of Helvetica. If Microsoft can call their version of Helvetica Arial, then Caliban seems appropriate for mine. Alternate URL. Yet another URL.

George Williams is best known as the inventor and creator of FontForge, the bigest and best free font editor today. It made him the darling of the Open Software community. Interview with OSP. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gerhard Helzel

Diplom Engineer and painter from Hamburg who designed or digitized over 210 Fraktur fonts [see my compilation of his list]. He is heavily involved in the Bund für Deutsche Schrift und Sprache. Helzel is the designer at Delbanco-Frakturschriften of DS-DtWerkschrift (1997), DS-Fruehling (1996), DS-MaximilianGotisch (1994), DS-MaximilianTitel (1994), DS-Post-Fraktur (1997). He has hand-digitized over 200 Fraktur fonts, including

• BreitkopfInitialen (2000). Breitkopf Fraktur was made in the 18th century.
• ElementSchmalfett (1998). Element is a modern Textura by Max Bittrof (1933, Bauersche Giesserei).
• GotenburgA and GotenburgB (1998-2000). Gotenburg was originally designed by Friedrich Heinrichsen (1935-37, Stempel AG).
• HamburgerDruckschriftFett (1996). Hamburger Druckschrift is due to Friedrich Bauer (1904, Genzsch&Heyse). According to "Blackletter: Type and National Identity", Hamburger Druckschrift "is an accomplished entry in this category of hybrid typefaces made before the 1st World War. They work within the black-letter tradition while borrowing lighter weight, softer curves and more open proportions from roman. Bauer maintained the structure of broken script, but subdued any flourishes. The width of his letters are generally wider than in traditional frakturs and, as in Jugendstil hybrids, some lowercase letterforms are modernized." It has been used as headliner for "Hamburger Nachrichten" which was stopped by the Nazis in 1939. Today's "Hamburger Abendblatt", the daily Hamburg Times, is still using it as headliner.
• HumboldtFrakturGross (2000). Humboldt Fraktur was made by Hiero Rhode (1938, Stempel AG).
• HumboldtFrakturKlein (2000).
• KochFrakturSchmaleHalbfette (2000). This font is due to Rudolf Koch (1910-1921, Gebr. Klingspor), and was originally named Deutsche Schrift. Digitized in 1998.
• Mainzer Fraktur.
• Mars Fraktur (1995, free family).
• RatdoltRotunda (1998). Named after Erhard Ratdolt (1443-1528), typesetter. Designed by Wolfgang Hendlmeier in 1989. Available at Delbanco.
• Weber Fraktur.
• WieynckGotischLicht (2001). A font by by Heinrich Wieynck (1926, Schriftguss Dresden), inspired by William Morris' work.

Helzel also offers a free "Frakturconverter" program for Windows which transforms Antiqua fonts into Fraktur fonts.

List of his fonts as of 2009: (Anker-)Schul-Fraktur, Accidenz-Gotisch, Akzidenz-Gotisch, Aldine, Albion-Gotisch, Alt-Fraktur, Alt-Gotisch (Bradley), Altdeutsch, Alt-Deutsch, Alte Münchner Fraktur, Alte deutsche Schreibschrift, Alte Schwabacher, Amts-Fraktur, Andreas-Schrift, Angelsächsisch, Angelsächsisch, Verzierte, Antike Gotisch, Aramäische Quadratschrift, Astra, Bastard, Bernhard-Fraktur, Bismarck-Gotisch, Breite deutsche Anzeigenschrift, Breite Kanzlei, Breitkopf-Fraktur, Britannia (Alt-Gotisch), Büxenstein-Antiqua, Büxenstein-Fraktur, Canzlei, Caxton, Caxton-Type, Claudius, Courante Gotisch, Danziger Fraktur, Derby, Deutsche Reichsschrift, Deutsche Schrägschrift, Deutsche Schreibschrift, Deutsche Schrift, Deutsche Werkschrift, Deutsche Zierschrift, Deutsch-Gotisch, Deutschland, Dresdner Amts-Fraktur, Eckmann-Schrift, Einfache Kanzlei, Elegant, Element, Enge Gotisch, Enge moderne Kanzlei, Enge König-Type, Enge Kanzlei, Englische Antiqua, Faust-Fraktur, Fette Gotisch, Fette Schwabacher, Fichte-Fraktur, Fractur, Französische Antiqua, Frühling-Fraktur (1997, after Koch's original from 1917), Garamond-Antiqua, Genzsch-Antiqua, Germanen-Fraktur (this is the same as Stempel's Normannia from 1905), Germanisch, Goethe-Fraktur, Gotenburg, Graeca, Gronau-Gotisch, Gursch-Fraktur, Gutenberg-Fraktur, Gutenberg-Bibelschrift, Gutenberg-Gotisch, Haenel-Antiqua, Halbfette Aldine, Halbfette Kanzlei, Halbfette Normalfraktur, Halbfette Schwabacher-Flinsch, Halbfette Wallau, Hamburger Druckschrift, Hamburger Fraktur, Hamburger Schwabacher, Hammonia-Gotisch, Hansa-Fraktur, Hansa-Gotisch, Hebräisch, Hellenistische Antiqua "Graeca", Hölderlin, Holländische Gotisch, Hoyer-Fraktur, Humboldt-Fraktur, Hupp-Fraktur, Ideal-Fraktur, Jean-Paul-Fraktur, Jubiläumsfraktur, Kaiser-Gotisch, Kanzlei, Karl-May-Fehsenfeld-Fraktur, Karl-May-Radebeul, Kirchengotisch, Moderne, Kleist-Fraktur, Kleukens-Fraktur, Koch-Antiqua, Koch-Fraktur, König-Fraktur G14, König-Type, Kühne-Gotisch, Kühne-Schrift, Kurante Gotisch, Kurmark, Lichte National, Liebing-Type, Liturgisch, Logos, Ludlow-Wartburg-Fraktur, Magere Wallau, Mainzer Fraktur, Manuskript-Gotisch, Mars-Fraktur, Maximilian-Gotisch, Mediaeval-Gotisch, Leipziger Altfraktur, Midoline, Moderne Kanzlei, Moderne Kirchen-Gotisch, Mönchs-Gotisch, Morris-Gotisch (Uncial-Gotisch, Unzial-Gotisch), Münster-Gotisch, Neu-Gotisch klein, Neudeutsch(-Hupp), Neue (moderne) Fraktur, Neue Schwabacher, Nordisch-Antiqua, Normal-Fraktur (1999, after the font by Gustav Schelter, 1835), Normannia-Fraktur, Nürnberg, Offenbach, Post-Fraktur, Psalter-Gotisch, Ratdolt-Rotunda, Reklame-Fraktur halbfett, Renaissance-Fraktur, Renaissance-Kanzlei, Renata, Richard-Wagner-Fraktur, Rundgotisch, Russisch-Römisch, Salzmann-Fraktur, Schmale Accidenz-Gotisch, Schmale Haas-Gotisch, Schmale halbfette Fraktur, Schmale halbfette Gotisch, Schneidler-Schwabacher, Schraffierte Gotisch, Schreibschrift, Schul-Fraktur, Schwabacher, Sonderdruck-Antiqua, Stahl, Stella, Stempel-Fraktur, Straßburg, Tannenberg, Thannhaeuser-Fraktur, Tiemann-Fraktur, Tiemann-Gotisch, Tiemann-Mediaeval, Unger-Fraktur, Verzierte Angelsächsisch, Verzierte Musirte Gotisch, Victoria-Gotisch (Viktoria-Gotisch), Wallau, Wartburg-Fraktur, Weber-Fraktur, Weiß-Fraktur, Werkschrift Germanisch, Wieynck-Gotisch, Wilhelm-Klingspor-Gotisch, Wohe-Kursive, Zeitungs-Fraktur, Zeitungs-Schwabacher (halbfette neue), Zentenar-Buchschrift.

Catalog from 1996. Article in 1995 by him on Normal Fraktur. Another catalog, in pieces: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII. Antiqua catalog. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gliphmaker.com
[Ivan Zeifert]

Russian language site with an archive (specializing in calligraphic and display scripts), some original fonts by Ivan Zeifert of Ivan Zeifert Works, tens of free fonts by Alexandra Gophmann, and links to free and commercial font sites. Commercial scripts nearly all by Zeifert, and nearly all are cyrillicized versions of Latin faces. Free scripts: Cansellarist (2003, Ivan Zeifert, cyrillicized version of Cancellaresca Script Plain), ChampagneCyrillic (2005), Copyist (2004, Ivan Zeifert), Drakkar (2004), Figurny (2006, an exaggerated Victorian face, done with Anatole and Alexandra Gophmann), Flibustier-Thin (2005), HeatherScriptOne (2005, Alexandra Gophmann), HeatherScriptTwo (2005, Alexandra Gophmann), KabarettSimple-Thin (2004, a Showboat-style face, cyrillicized by Ivan Zeifert), KabarettDecorDEMO-Thin (2004), Marianna (2006), RockletterSimple (2005), RockletterTransparent (2005), RosamundaOne-Normal (2005, Alexandra Gophmann), RosamundaTwo (2005, Alexandra Gophmann). These are all by Ivan Zeifert: Flibustier-Thin (2005), Twin Brush (2006), Custodian (2006), Acquest Script (2006), Auric Script (2006), Calligraphist, ChampagneCyrillic (2005), Cansellarist (2003, cyrillicized version of Cancellaresca Script Plain), Chancellor, Chaplain, Chromium Plated, Connetable, Counterbalance, Copyist, Countess, Decree Art One and Two, Decree (Narrow, Thin, Wide), Drakkar, Engraver, Forest, Gissmonda, Kabarett Decorated, Kabarett Transparent, Languedoc, Maghreib, Medieval, Neon Italic, Patience, Rockletter Decorated, RockletterSimple (2005), RockletterTransparent (2005), Saloon, Splinter, Twin Brush, Whirlpool, Wooden Ship Decorated, Wooden Ship One and Two. News. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gluk Fonts

Polish designer (b. 1973). Type catalog in 2010. Creator of the free artsy font Wanta (2008), of Resagnicto (2010), of Rawengulk (2010), of Rawengulk Sans (2011), of Reswysokr (2011), of the bold slab serif face Zantroke (2011), and of the free calligraphic faces Odstemplik (2009), promocyja (2008) and Konstytucyja (2008).

He published the elegant serif family Foglihten (2010), which includes the inline faces Foglihten No. 1 (2011), Foglihten Fr02 (2011) and Foglihten No. 3 (2011). The latter is inspired by the Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791. Foglihten Petite Caps Black (2012) is a hiogh-contrast fat didone face, minus the ball terminals.

Qumpellka No 12 (2011) is a flowing italic. Opattfram01 (2011) is a dingbat face with onamental patterns. The Okolaks family (2008) has a bit of an art deco feel. It covers East-European languages as well as Cyrillic. Sportrop (2008) is a neat multiline face. Gputeks (2008) is a delicate decorative face. Szlichta07 (2008) on the other hand is an experimental face based on tilting the horizontal edges about ten degrees up. Kawoszeh (2008) is a curly Victorian face. Spinwerad (2009) and Itsadzoke S01 (2010) and Itsadzoke S02 are display didones. Znikomit (2011) is an impressive hairline slab face.

Creations from 2012: Mikodacs (an Impact-like black display sans), Yokawerad (a didone headline face), Resagokr.

His first name is Grzegorz. Dafont link. Digart link. Fontspace link. Dafont link. Open Font Library link. Scribus Stuff link. Fontspace link. Kernest link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Graphx Edge Fonts

Lisa Johns from Orlando, FL, runs Graphx Edge Fonts, a foundry in Altamonte Springs, FL, offering "high quality pictorial fonts". Their 250-odd collection is surely not made from scratch, especially not their body, script and display fonts. One used to be able to find four great free dingbats here: GE Nautica, GE Zoom, GE Zodiac, GE Holiday Sampler. In the Font Services section, they will make custom pictorial, signature (10USD), or logo (20USD) truetype fonts. For 20 USD, get also packages of 20 fonts such as Absolute Fun Fonts, Absolute Dingbats (60 dingbats, 129USD) or Absolute Script Fonts. Now also called ScriptFonts.Com. Alternate site. Deco fonts, a collection of 4 dingbat fonts for 30 USD. Alternate URL. At this archive, you can find the following fonts: GEBanners, GEClipz, GEComedy, GECurviture, GEElegantScript, GEFiestaMarquee, GEFleet, GEFreeForm, GEFrills, GEGlob, GEHandyScript, GEMontage, GENervousTwitch, GERomanesse, GESheerScript. Partial list of dingbats: GEAngels (I to III), GECarouselHorses, GECelticArt, GEChineseArt, GEChristmasJoy, GEComicalChristmas, GECurviture, GEEdibles, GEEgyptianArt, GEElementsofNature (I and II), GEFloralStencils, GEHolidaySampler, GEIttyBittys, GEJapaneseArt, GEMerryChristmas, GENativeAmericanArt, GENautica, GEOutToSea, GEPennsylvaniaDutch (I and II), GESheerScript, GESnowmen, GESpringtime, GEStorybookTales, GEWhimsicalAnimals (I to IV), GEWildKingdom, GEZodiac, GEZoom. Another alias: Megadownloads. At Joz's Smallwares, you may find Fleet, Romanesse, Frills, Free Form and Comedy, Curviture, Elegant Script, Handy Script, Montage and Sheer Script, Fiesta Marquee, Nervous Twitch, Banners, Clipz and Glob. The list of fonts is long:

• Dingbats: A Childs World, Angels I, Angels II, Angels III, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Barnyard, Birds, Bride & Groom, Carousel Horses, Celtic Art, Cherubs, Chinese Art, Clothing, Fun Christmas, Deco Animals, Deco Foods, Deco Music, Deco Traveler, Edibles, Egyptian Art, Elements I, Elements II, Food Basket, Floral Stencils, Grab Bag I, Grab Bag II, Halloween, Holiday Sampler, Itty Bittys, Japanese Art, Motion, Native American, Nautica, Out to Sea, Penn Dutch I, Penn Dutch II, Profiles, Reptibian, Santa Claus, Stylized Foods, Ships Ahoy, Snowmen, Stylized People, Springtime, Storybook Tales, Sweet Tooth, Teddy Bears, Toys, Velveteen, Victorian Art, Wedding, Whimsical I, Whimsical II, Whimsical III, Whimsical IV, Wild Animals I, Wild Animals II, Wild Animals III, Wild Animals IV, Women, Merry Christmas, Christmas Joy, Xmas Silhouettes, Zodiac.
• Body fonts: Booker, Century, Chrome, Civilized, Civilized BI, Drover, Early Gothic, Ergonomic, Expression, Headline, Madhouse, Monograph, Novus Sans, Optical, Palladian, Penguin, Pilfering, Quartz, Rhythms, Romulus, Sultan, Timpani.
• Script fonts: Adina, Afresco, Alluring, Amazonia, Arabesque, Arista, Ballantine, Basalt, Brand, Brush Stroke, Clipper, Coterie, Curviture, Cygnus, Darlah, Elegant, Esmeralda, Flair Brush, Fleurish, Formality, Freelancer, Handsome, Handy Script, Journeyman, Lara Script, Light Stroke, Martine, Memograph, Misty, Mona Lisa, Montage, NanoTech, Park Script, Primus, Quilt, Quintet, Ragged, Sentinel, Sepia, Sheer, Signature, Sonatta, Storybook, Travel, Twil, Twine, Twin Peaks, Vibrant, Vienna, Zebra.
• Decorative fonts: Acorn, Army, Arroyo, Astarte, Bagel, Baliff, Banners, Barter, Dough, Buttress, Cadbury, Cameron, Clipz, Cobble, Comedy, Compo, Cortina, Croatia, Crystal, Decco, Delphin, Dimensions, Dipped, Distort, Enchase, Fiesta, Filigree, Firework, Fleurish, Florist, FlChild, Graffiti, Gravid, Greenway, Hawthorne, Ironwork, Ivy, Khevah, Letter Cut, Lollipop, Marble, Marquee, Meso, Milieu, Money, Nervous, Offshore, Oldwest, Saloon, Scroll, Serpent, Sidestep, Snowtop, Spooks, Spotty, Stone, Sunscreen, Sylvan, Bones, Timber, Time Warp, ToolTime, Tree House, Typography Caps, Vortex, Warped, Watershed Caps, Wedgie, William.

Greater Albion Typefounders (or: GATF)
[Paul James Lloyd]

Paul J. Lloyd's typefoundry in Western Australia, est. 2008. Lloyd (b. UK) made over 100 free truetype fonts before that. He writes: What we will offer is new designs, replete with Edwardian Fun, Victorian distinction, or any other piece of elegance we can manage.

Edwardian creations from 2008-2010: Ark Wright (traditional shop signage), Adantine, Goldbarre, Brosse, Crewekerne, Crewekerne Magna and Crewekerne Magister, Larchmont, Brissard, Brossard (slab serif), Bonavia, Bonavia Blanc, Clementhorpe, Veneribe, Chiara Script, Howlett, Svengali Roman, Bonning and Bonnington (1920's style families with ideas from University Roman), Absinette, Bamberforth, Tumbletype, Vertrina, Bromwich, Great Bromwich, Fleete, Helenium. Chipping emulates the Edwardian 1920s.

Art deco faces: Oakland (2011, multiline face gleaned from a 1930s French car ad), Zenia (2010, trilined), Plebe (Plebia, 2008: a grotesk emulating the 1930s), Whitehaven (2008, an extensive art deco family with several shadow weights), Merry Fleurons (2008, Christmas ornament dingbats), Braxia (2008), Keynsia (fifties style art deco family with Peignot influences).

Other faces: Haymer is a large sans family made in 2010. Clunic (2008) is a blackletter face. Tectura (2008) is a handwriting font. Eldridge is a slab serif family. Aliqua (2009), Chipperly (2009) and Syondola (2009) are Wild West families. Terazza Tilings (2009) and Valentine's Fleurons (2009) are dingbat faces. Additions in 2009 include Lowndes (soft blackletter), Christmas Fleurons, Merry Snowmen, Cherritt (described as a Victorian era Courier), DoodleBirds, Halloween Fleurons, ButtonFaces, Sabio (neither slab nor sans), Daub (brush graffiti font), Sabinard (a modern swash face), Cullions (futuristic blackletter), Coronard (blackletter / roman hybrid), Easter Fleurons, Chapter Initials, Paveline (19th century calligraphic script), Mellin Sans and Open, Gildersleeve (evoking the 1920s Arts and Crafts movement), Stannard (a 1920's advertising inspired small caps face), Slattery (a horizontally shaded fun face), Slatterine (2009, more retro futurism), Spillsbury (2010, Victorian family), Cirflex (2010, geometric display face based on arcs of circles), Oxonia (2010, a classic roman family) and Vectis (classic Roman elegance, another small caps face).

Creations in 2010: Windevere, Albion's White Christmas, Paragon (a great didone display family with a wood type feel), Compton (slab serif family), Mexborough, Morover (Schwabacher family), Anavio (a classical roman family), Corvone (3d-effect font), Granville (Victorian), Corton (Victorian), Wellingborough (Victorian), Worthing (Victorian), Ark Wright (traditional shop signage), Bonaventure (art nouveau), Federal Streamliner (1950s feel techno face), Deva (classical roman), Crucis Ornaments (crosses), Bronzino (a roman with Arts and Crafts roots), Bertoni (2010, a didone family), Pardon Me Boy (train dingbats), Woodruff (Open Face fonts with a wood type look), Jonquin (based on a WWI poster; +Incised), Luscombe (1920s display family; +Parva), Movella (futuristic from the 1950s), Magdalena Sans (2010: a clear monoline sans), Endymion (2010: Tuscan), Paget (a Tuscan experimental all caps face), Portello (Victorian).

Typefaces made in 2011: Admiral (art nouveau), Tuscaloosa (Tuscan face), Eccles (bombastic Victorian), Wolverhampton (pre-Victorian), Doncaster (Victorian family), Metropole (art nouveau family), Corsham (stone engraved lettering family), Leibix (casual), Albia Nova (an elegant futuristic organic face), Flapper (art nouveau face), Bertolessi (curly Victorian), Tulk's Victorian Banner (all caps banner face), Fitzgerald (Victorian all caps face), Cleveden (Victorian headline family), Spargo (an extensive set of early 20th century-look engraved faces for official documents and securities), Bettendorf (2011, based on a 1900s masthead typeface), Wolvercote (2011, similar to Bettendorf), Pittsburgh (2011, a Western-style engraved face), Chubbly (2011), Portmeirion No. 6 (2011, a Victorian / circus design), Bronzetti (2011; images: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi), Sophie J (hanprinted), Dem Bones (2011, glyphs made from bones), Stout (2011), Birmingham New Street (a Victorian family inspired by the hand lettered title on a 19th century railway map), Beckinslade (ornamental blackletter).

Production in 2012: Penrose Slabserif (an Escher-like trompe l'oeuil 3d face), Haldane (art nouveau, Arabic look), Solidarius (chubby, fat felt-tip pen font), Bluebottle (angular display face), Merrivale (Victorian), Future Runes (runic simulation), Coliseo, Alfrere Sans (inspired by a 1950s television caption style), Tectura II (Lloyd's answer to Comic Sans), Secombe (Edwardian caps family), Milligan, London Court (Tudor-era caps family).

Type announcements. Behance link. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. Font Squirrel link. Kernest link. Abstract Fonts link.

View all typefaces by Paul Lloyd.

Images of Paul Lloyd's best-selling typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Greyletter
[Neil Patel]

Greyletter is Neil Patel's type foundry in Portland, Maine, est. 2009. Typefaces: Pinion Display (2010, a Victorian display face). Neil Patel is a semiconductor process engineer who was introduced to type design by his wife, a graphic designer. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Gunnar Link

Type designer born 1983 in Schramberg, Germany. He studied Kommunikationsdesign at Fachhochschule Mainz from 2007 to 2011. Creator of Royal Oak Decor (Victorian ornaments), Royal Oak Sans (Edwardian headline sans) and Royal Oak Serif (Western headline face). All were done in 2009 at Die Typonauten and were joint work with Ingo Krepinsky and Stefan Kroemer.

In 2011, he designed the Cooper Black-style face Frido Black at 26 plus zeichen. See also Frido Narrow (2011).

Ingo Krepinsky and Gunnar Link made the fun hand-drawn Western family Oklahoma Pro (2012) in styles called Deputy, Sheriff, Marshal and Scrawls (dingbats), and

In 2012, he published Selva, a modern take on the textura style. published it at Die Typonauten.

Typedia page. MyFonts foundry page. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Hans Brehmer

Type designer, b. 1840 Magdeburg, Germany. Went to the USA in 1865 to work at James Conner&Sons, and then moved on to other foundries, all in New York. Aka Henry Brehmer. His typefaces:

• At Conner: Sideographic (Shaded 1872, Ornate 1879).
• At Bruce Type Foundry (between 1876 and 1885): Ornamented Black No. 543, Ornamented No. 1053, Ornamented No. 1057, Ornamented No. 1067, Ornamented No. 1076, Ornamented No. 1078, Ornamented No. 1079, Ornamented No. 1080, Ornamented No. 1081, Ornamented No. 1082, Ornamented No. 1084, Ornamented No. 1085, Ornamented No. 1086, Ornamented No. 1091, Ornamented No. 1540, Ornamented No. 1553, Ornamented No. 1557, Ornamented No. 1559, Ornamented No. 1560, Ornamented No. 1562, Priscilla, Sarah, Shaded 1067, Shaded 1076, Shaded 1079, Shaded 1553.
• At Lindsay Type Foundry (1888-1890): Alma, Caroline, Crayonette, Elizabeth, Frances, Gretchen, Irene, Julie (1868, a decorative Western / Victorian face called Eclair by Dan X. Solo; revived in 2010 by Toto as K22 Eclair), Katherine, Marguerite, Maria, Martha, Mathilde.

Harlan Wallach

Creator of Alphabet3 and Victorian Caps---these are not fonts, but just illuminated caps. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Harvey&Karen Tonkin
[Harvey Tonkin]

Aussies Harvey&Karen Tonkin have created Victorian cursive fonts that might also be used for primary schools. Address: 31 Deschamp Road, Noranda, WA 6062. URL that mentions their work. Fonts by Harvey Tonkin: DottedVicModCursive (1998), VicModCurJoinedNormal (1998), VicModCursiveNormal (1993). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hermann Ihlenburg

Type designer, born in 1843 in Berlin (Schnelle says 1834), emigrated to the USA in 1866 and died in 1905 in Philadelphia. He was a punch-cutter. He worked in the USA at L. Johnson and Co, which later became MacKellar, Smiths and Jordan. His typefaces at MacKellar: American (1876), Angular Text (1884, blackletter), Arboret (1884), Arboret No. 2 (1885), Archaic (1888), Artistic (1886), Bijou (1883), Black Ornamented (1873), Byzantine (1868), Centennial Script (1874, a spectacular high-contrast script digitized in 2007 by Canada Type and in 2011 as a free font called Mortem Stylus by Stylus, and by Intellecta Design as Centennial Script), Chaucer (1883), Childs (1892, redone by R. Beatty), Circular Black (1883), Columbian (1891), Columbus (1890: for a digital revival, see Cristoforo by Thomas Phinney, 2012), Columbus Outline (1892), Copperplate (1877), Crayon (1886), Culdee (1885), Dado (1882), Dynamo (1891), Eureka Text (1870, blackletter), Ferdinand (1892, now at Dover), Filigree (1878), Fillet (1890), Glyptic, Glyptic No. 2 and Glyptic Shaded (1878), Gothic Ornate (?), Greenback (1871), Grolier (1887), Gutenberg (1888), Houghton (?), Illuminated and Illuminated No. 2 (1876), Isabella (1892, a bastarda face; digital version at Agfa, Adobe, and Linotype, 2001), Italic Copperplate (1878), Japanesque and Japanesque No. 2 (1877, oriental simulation faces), Johnson (1892), Lady Text (1884, blackletter), Lippincott (1895?), Mediaeval Text and Mediaeval Text Ornate (1870, blackletter), Minaret (1868), Minster (1878), Mortised and Mortised No. 2 (1884), Newfangle (1892), Nymphic (1889, revived by Barmee in Secesja, and by Paul D. Hunt (2004), who published it as Kilkenny (2005, P22)), Obelisk (1881), Oxonian (1881), Pencraft (1885), Phidian (1870, redone by Dover), Philadelphian (1867), Pynson (1887), Quenn Bess Script (1882), Radiant (1876), Radiated (1871), Relievo (1878), Relievo No. 2 (1879), Rimpled (1895), Ringlet (1882, the prototypical Victorian typeface; Dan X. Solo made a digital version in 1998 which is also called Ringlet), Romanesque (1874), Sansom Script (1888), School Text (1876), Spiral (1890, redone by R. Beatty), Stipple (1890), Stylus and Stylus No. 2 (1883), Tendril (1878), Treasury (1874), Treasury Open (1875), Unique (1874), Unique No. 2 (1875), and Zinco (1891).

At ATF: Taylor Gothic (1894), Schoeffer Old Style (1897), Roundhand Series (1902), Post Oldstyle Italic (1901), Ihlenburg Series (1900?), Bradley Series (1895-1897, now at Dover), American Italic (1902). Ludlow offers a digital version of Hannibal.

Klingspor link. Comments on some faces by Mac McGrew:

• American Italic is a heavy, novel design by Herman Ihlenburg introduced by ATF in 1902, as a companion to Columbus, which had been designed for ATF's MacKellar Smiths&Jordan branch in 1892. The italic survived its roman mate, being shown by itself in 1906, but was gone by 1912. It is essentially a nineteenth-century design.
• Bradley (or Bradley Text) was designed by Herman Ihlenburg-some sources credit it to Joseph W. Phinney--from lettering by Will H. Bradley for the Christmas cover of an Inland Printer magazine. It was produced by ATF in 1895, with Italic, Extended, and Outline versions appearing about three years later. It is a very heavy form of black-letter, based on ancient manuscripts, but with novel forms of many letters. Bradley and Bradley Outline, which were cut to register for two-color work, have the peculiarity of lower alignment for the caps than for the lowercase and figures, as may be seen in the specimens; Italic and Extended align normally. The same face with the addition of German characters (some of which are shown in the specimen of Bradley Extended) was sold as Ihlenburg, regular and Extended. Similar types, based on the same source and issued about the saUte time, were St. John by Inland Type Foundry, and Abbey Text by A. D. Farmer&Son. They were not as enduring as Bradley, which was resurrected fora while in 1954 by ATF. Also compare Washington Text.
• Round Hand was designed for ATF about 1900, and has been ascribed to Ro Herman Ihlenburg. It has the appearance of handwriting with a broad pen, but letters are not quite connected.
• Schoeffer Old Style [No.2] was designed by Herman Ihlenburg for ATF in 1897. It is typical of a number of faces of the day-a plainly lettered roman with small, blunt serifs. Some references list Schoeffer Condensed, cut in 1902; this is probably the face shown a little later as Adver Condensed (q.v.). On Linotype, Schaeffer Oldstyle was called Elzevir No.2.

HiH (Hand in Hand)
[Tom Wallace]

Foundry in (Naugatuck) Woodbridge, CT, est. 2005. The owner/designer is Tom Wallace (b. 1944, USA). His type designs are based on historical letterforms:

• Augsburger Initialen and Augsburger Schrift (2001), an art nouveau pair found in Ludwig Petzendorfer's Treasury of authentic art nouveau alphabets, decorative initials, monograms, frames and ornaments (1984, Dover). Augsburger Schrift is originally due to Peter Schnorr (1901, Berthold). In 2007, Wallace added Augsburger Ornamente.
• Figgins Tuscan (2005) is based on the first metal Tuscan typeface by Figgins in 1817.
• Freak, based on Bamboo (1889, The Great Western Type Foundry). HiH explains: Great Western became Barnhart Brothers & Spindler in 1868. At some point, prior to 1925, Freak was renamed Bamboo by BB&S. It was delisted when BB&S was absorbed by ATF in 1929. Compare with Dan Solo's Bamboo (2004).
• Gradl Initialen (2005): based on caps designed by Max Joseph Gradl ca. 1900 for engraving on his art nouveau jewelry in Germany. Samples are in Petzendorfer.
• Huxley Alt (2005), an alternative to the ultra-condensed Lutherian church font Huxley Vertical (or Aldous Vertical) by Walter Huxley (ATF). Huxley Amore (2006) is a major extension of this, and Huxley Cyrillic (2008) adds Russian characters.
• Künstler Grotesk (2005): a simple blackletter caps face based on a design seen in Petzendorfer's book.
• Page No. 508 (2006): Page No. 508 was designed by William H. Page in 1887 as one of a series of designs for die-cut wood types for the firm of Page & Setchell of Norwich, CT. Page & Setchell was the successor to The William H. Page Wood Type Company and was sold to the Hamilton Manufacturing Company of Two Rivers, Wisconsin in 1891.
• Pekin (2005): first designed by Ernst Lauschke in 1888 at the Great Western Foundry under the name Dormer.
• Schnorr Dekorativ, Demi Bold and Initialen (2007), all due to Peter Schnorr (ca. 1900), as well as Schnorr gestreckt (2006), an art nouveau face from 1898.
• Rundgotisch (2005): based on a design by Schelter and Giesecke, ca. 1900.
• Edison (2005) is based on Edison Swirl SG, a Spiece Graphics digitization of a late 18-th century design of the Bauersche Giesserei.
• Bethlehem Star (2005) is based on the typeface Accent with the permission of URW++: HiH only added stars to the glyphs.
• Secession (2006): a sans family with art nouveau twists.
• French Plug (2007): A sign painters font based upon work of Frank H. Atkinson, a popular Art Nouveau sign painter in Chicago, who worked for Cadillac, and published Sign Painting in 1908.
• T-Hand Monoline (2007): a printed script family.
• Figgins Antique (2007): an all-caps black slab serif headline face based on Figgins, ca. 1815.
• Mulier Moderne (2007): Based on a font designed ca. 1894 by E. Mulier, a French art nouveau era artist.
• Regina Cursiv (2007): an art nouveau design.
• Edelgotisch (2007): a bold Jugendstil design (with caps), based on a design released by Schelter & Giesecke of Leipzig, Germany about 1898 and is very similar to Eckmann-Schrift released by Rudhard'schen Giesserei (later Klingspor) during the same period.
• Teutonia (2007), a revival of Teutonia by Roos & Junge, a squarish art nouveau face. HiH writes: There are many quite similar attempts in the field of topography. In 1883, Baltimore Type Foundry released its Geometric series. In 1910, Geza Farago in Budapest used a similar letter design on a Tungsram light bulb poster. In 1919 Theo van Doesburg, a founder with Mondrian and others of the De Stijl movement, designed an alphabet using rectangles only -- no diagonals. In 1923, Joost Schmidt at Bauhaus in Weimar took the same approach for a Constructivist exhibit poster. The 1996 Agfatype Collection catalog lists a Geometric in light, bold and italic that is very close to the old Baltimore version. And in 2008, HiH itself published Baltimore Geometric.
• Austin Antique, based on Richard Austin's 1827 antique typeface.
• Morris Gothic, Morris Ornaments and Morris Initials One and Two (2007): The gothic that Morris designed was first used by his Kelmscott Press for the publication of the Historyes Of Troye in 1892. It was called Troy Type and was cut at 18 points by Edward Prince. It was also used for The Tale of Beowulf. The typeface was re-cut in at 12 points and called Chaucer Type for use in The Order of Chivalry and The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Morris' objective is designing his gothic was to preserve the color and presence of his sources, but to create letters that were more readable to the English eye. ATF copied Troy and called it Satanick. Not only was the ATF version popular in the United States; but, interestingly, sold very well in Germany. There was great interest in that country in finding a middle ground between blackletter and roman styles -- one that was comfortable for a wider readership. The Morris design was considered one of the more successful solutions.
• Larisch (2007): a hand-lettered design by the Austrian calligrapher and teacher, Rudolf von Larisch. The original was used for the title page of the 1903 edition of Beispiele Kunstlerischer Schrift Examples of Artistic Writing).
• Patent Reclame (2007): an art nouveau face first cast around 1895 by Schriftgeisserei Flinch, and then by Stephenson Blake, ca. 1896.
• Jugendstil Initials (2007): a blackletter designed by Heinrich Vogeler around 1905.
• Wedding (2007): a multi-style English blackletter family, based on a Morris Fuller Benton original called Wedding Text.
• Brass (2007): two blackletter faces from the early 1500s described by Alexander Nesbitt in his Decorative Alphabets And Initials (Mineola, NY, 1959) as initials and stop ornaments from brasses in Westminster Abbey.
• Auchentaller (2007), a monoline art nouveau face inspired by a travel poster by Josef Maria Auchentaller (b. Vienna, 1865, d. Grado, 1949; studied at the Vienna Academy, professor in Munich, member of the secession from 1898, artist) in 1906.
• Phinney Jenson (2007): a Venetian by Nicolas Jenson from the 15th century, about which Wallace writes: In 1890 a leader of the Arts & Crafts movement in England named William Morris founded Kelmscott Press. He was an admirer of Jensons Roman and drew his own somewhat darker version called Golden, which he used for the hand-printing of limited editions on homemade paper, initiating the revival of fine printing in England. Morris' efforts came to the attention of Joseph Warren Phinney, manager of the Dickinson Type Foundry of Boston. Phinney requested permission to issue a commercial version, but Morris was philosophically opposed and flatly refused. So Phinney designed a commercial variation of Golden type and released it in 1893 as Jenson Oldstyle. Phinney Jenson is our version of Phinneys version of Morris' version of Nicolas Jensons Roman.
• Advertisers Gothic (2008): based on Robert Wiebking's tasteless 1917 design for Western Typefoundry. HiH writes: Advertisers Gothic is bold and brash, like the city it comes from, Chicago. It was designed by the accomplished German-American matrix engraver, Robert Wiebking, for the Western Type Foundry in 1917. As its name suggests, it was designed for commercial headliner work, much as Publicity Gothic by Sidney Gaunt for BB&S the year before. See our Publicity Headline.
• Publicity Headline (2006): an allcaps version of Sidney Gaunt's advertising typeface, Publicity Gothic (1916, Barnhart Brothers & Spindler). Its heavy weight and robust strength allows it to be used against complex backgrounds or reversed out on dark backgrounds without getting lost.
• Herold (2008): a revival of Berthold Herold Reklameschrift BQ (Heinz Hoffmann, 1901), an art nouveau advertising typeface.
• Yes Dear (2008) is a funny hyper-curly blackletter face.
• Besley Clarendon (2008) is the HiH version of the Clarendon registered by Robert Besley and the Fann Street Foundry in 1845. This condensed face was very popular in the 19th century, and was copied by most foundries of that era. It was followed by Gutta Percha (2008), a Clarendon in which the upper case letters are dropcaps.
• Waltari (2008): a revival of Walthari (1899, Heinz König for the Rudhardsche Giesserei), a Jugendstil type.
• Hispania Script (2008): revival of a pirate map script face by Schelter & Giesecke (1890).
• Cloudy Day (2008), an alphading.
• HiH stumbled on a 1902 publication by Bruno Seuchter called Die Fäche, in which he found the art nouveau face that HiH revived in 2008 as Seuchter Experimental.
• Petrarka ML and Haunted House (2008), Halloween-themed fonts.
• Gothic Tuscan One (2008) is an all-caps condensed gothic with round terminals and decorative Tuscan center spurs. It was first shown by William H. Page of Norwich, CT, among his wood type specimen pages of 1859.
• HiH Firmin Didot (2008) is a one-style didone based on an 1801 version of Didot. It led to a combined alphabet/stick people alphading called Gens de Baton (2008) after a lower case alphabet that appeared in the Almanach des Enfants pour 1886 (Paris, 1886) under the title Amusing Grammar Lessons.
• Shout (2008), a Compacta-like fat headline sans about which HiH writes: Its lineage includes the Haas Type Foundrys 19th century advertising font, Kompakte Grotesk, which Jan Tschichold (1902-1974) dryly described as extended sans serif and which graphic designer Roland Holst (1868-1938) would have disapprovingly referred to as a shout, as opposed to the quiet presentation of information that he believed was the proper function of advertising. In 1963 Letraset released what appears to be an updated variation in multiple weights designed by Frederick Lambert called Compacta. Shout draws heavily on Compacta, as well as other similar fonts of the 50s and 60s like Eurostile Bold Condensed and Permanent Headline. In weight, it falls about halfway between Compacta Bold and Compacta Black.
• The heavy art deco faces Guthschmidt and Guthschmidt Condensed (2008) are based on a 1924 KLM Royal Dutch Airline poster designed by Anthonius Guthschmidt. The poster draws on the imagery of the legend The Flying Dutchman.
• Cherub and Cherub Caps (2008) are based on Phinney Jenson. Not to be confused with the many fonts that already existed with that name, such as Cherub from House of Lime, Twopeas, Graph Edge Fonts, and Fuelfonts.
• HiH Large (2009) is a poster sans.
• Mira (2009) is an art nouveau / Victorian face patterned after a font by the Roos & Junge Foundry in Offenbach, ca. 1902.
• Thorowgood Sans (2009): A three-dimensional all-cap font for title use, Thorowgood Sans Shaded was released by the Fann Street Foundry of W. Thorowgood & Co. in 1839. Interestingly, it more closely resembles Figgins' Four-Line Emerald Sans-Serif Shaded of 1833 than Fann Street's own Grotesque Shaded of 1834 (with light and shadow reversed).
• Fantastic ML (2009): an art nouveau face originally released as "Modern Style" by Fonderie G. Peignot & Fils, Paris, France some time before 1903.
• Gundrada ML (2010): a medieval style face inspired by the lettering on the tomb of Gundrada de Warenne, who was buried at Southover Church at Lewes, Sussex, in the south of England in 1085.
• Wedge Gothic (2010). HiH writes: Wedge Gothic ML is the original name of this font released by Barnhart Bros. and Spindler of Chicago in 1893. [...] The typeface was dropped for awhile -- it does not appear in the 1907 catalog for example -- but reappeared in 1925 as Japanette. McGrew says that the new name was Japanet. It was recast by ATF in 1954.
• Norwich Aldine ML (2010) is an all caps typeface with enlarged serifs, designed and produced in wood by William H. Page of Norwich, CT in 1872.
• Rodchenko Constructed ML (2010) is constructivist (Latin and Cyrillic).
• Cruickshank ML (2012): a decorative typeface from the late Victorian period. The typeface was designed by William W. Jackson and released by MacKellar, Smiths and Jordan Type Foundry of Samson Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1886.

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HPLHS Prop Fonts (Was: Ephemera, and earlier: Prop Fonts)
[Andrew H. Leman]

Andrew Leman is a prop designer in Hollywood, CA. The type foundry HPLHS Prop Fonts (was: Ephemera, Prop Fonts) was started by Hollywood's Andrew Leman, and is now located in Pasadena, CA. Some fonts are free, most are commercial.

Dafont link. Klingspor link.

Andrew Leman's fonts:

• Cablegram (2001, old typewriter face, T-26).
• Leviathan.
• Garamold (2007, 2 styles).
• Journalistic (2007, a blackletter inspired by the nameplate of a New England newspaper from the 1920s).
• Blackburn (2006, distressed).
• RTemporal (2006, blackletter).
• Fonts in the HPLHS series, dated 2002: HeadlineTwoHPLHS, OldStyle1HPLHS, OldstyleItalicHPLHS, OldstyleSmallCapsHPLHS, Rogo, SlabSerifHPLHS, TelegramHPLHS, WW2BlackletterHPLHS, WW2BlackltrAltHPLHS, HPLHS-Lovecraft Cursive and Block (replica of H. P. Lovecraft's own handwriting), HPLHS-Autograph Lanier (replica of the 1875 handwriting of Sidney Lanier, a 19th century American poet), HPLHS-TextSerif (really Linotype Antique No. 1), HPLHS-TypoScript, HPLHS-TextSerif Oblique, HPLHS-Bulfinch, HPLHS-Colwell, HPLHS-Colwell Italic, HPLHS-Cromwell, HPLHS-National Oldstyle (after Goudy's font by that name), HPLHS-Post Monotone, HPLHS-Atlas Italic, HPLHS-Italic, HPLHS-Victoria (from the 1923 ATF book), HPLHS-Manuscript Caps, HPLHS-Tome Pi, HPLHS-TypoGothic, HPLHS-Copperplate Roman, HPLHS-Gothic520, HPLHS-Times Gothic, HPLHS-Persnickety, HPLHS-Roman Engraved, HPLHS-Mercantile, HPLHS-Mercantile Oblique, HPLHS-Mercantile Card, HPLHS-Headline Modified, HPLHS-ExtraExtra, HPLHS-Extra (wood type), HPLHS-Forsythe, HPLHS-MetroThin, HPLHS-MetroLight, HPLHS-MetroMedium, HPLHS-MetroMedium Italic, HPLHS-MetroBlack, HPLHS-Policy Gothic, HPLHS-Black Gothic, HPLHS-Gothic Compressed, HPLHS-Black Condensed, HPLHS-Black Oblique, HPLHS-Electro Gothic, HPLHS-Blackletter (an irregular hand-drawn textura font based on the lettering of French heraldic engraver Charles Demengeot).
• The E-phemera Font Collection, available from MyFonts, which includes these fonts, with a majority being retro or script faces: Fred (2007, inspired by a 1930s face by Fred G. Cooper), Schreibweise (2007, a pirate-flavored font inspired by a hand-lettered manuscript dating from 1492), Cablegram-Regular, Golden Ticket-Base, Cablegram-Urgent, Golden Ticket-Fill, Cablegram-Madras, Golden Ticket-Highlight, Cablegram-Ottoman, Julius Klinger Regular (based on 1925 fabric lettering), Cablegram-Zagreb, Julius Klinger Bold, DMV Printer, Landry Gothic, Penitentiary Gothic-Regular, Telegrafo, Penitentiary Gothic-Fill, Toronto Gothic, Penitentiary Gothic-Hilite, Vogue (pencil-lettered caps), Penitentiary Gothic-Lolite, Penitentiary Gothic-Shadow, Chicago House, Compliments-Regular, Compliments-Upright, Satisfaction (script based on 1930s cigarette ads), Vandal Broke Extra Juicy, Lanier (2004), Impersonal. The Cablegram, Penitentiary and DMV series are typewriter fonts. Heck Italic (2010) is based on captions, labels and legends appearing on 19th-century maps and natural history engravings by Johann Georg Heck. Dai Vernon (2010) is based on the handwriting of card magician Dai Vernon.

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Human figures, stick figures

"Char@cter" suggests the following fonts for letters made to resemble humans:

• apicturefont (Colonial figures with Caslon-Open style letters)
• arbitre (A whistle-blowing referee)
• armyboy (All identical soldiers with a simple superimposed letter)
• BadCabbageICG-Primal (Elongated stick figures)
• bizarro (It's ..errr.. well, its ummm ... bizarre)
• CG Victorian Silhouette (People doing various things)
• Chlorinuh (Think of the Pilsbury Doughboy in a swimming pool)
• EDBindia (Puffy letters with eyes, wearing a feather headdress)
• EDBsweatingIt (Puffy people-letters exercising)
• FuzzyCootie (Sans-serif outline font with female silhouettes)
• getagrip (Letters made up of arms holding each other's wrists)
• GroovyGhosties (Cartoony ghosts - the covered-with-a-sheet kind)
• Groupsex (Suggestive - Stick people in compromising positions)
• KiddoTRT (Children Playing)
• Kilroys (Like the WWII Kilroy Was Here)
• LittleBallerina (Normal letters with a ballerina nearby)
• PointerCaps (Each letter has a pointing hand)
• Rad (People in exercise positions)
• StickLetter (Stick people)
• stripletter (Black letters with outline nudes superimposed)
• Vintage Erotique (Elaborate and just what it says)

H.W. Caslon&Co Ltd
[Justin Howes]

H.W. Caslon&Co Ltd was Justin Howes' foundry based in Rushden, UK, with one product, Founders Caslon, in several optical ranges: 1776, Text and Display are the main subfamilies (PC and Mac, truetype, type 1 and opentype). Justin Howes' Lino page.

Justin (b. Solihull, 1963; d. London, 2005) was director of the Type Museum until 2005, when he moved to the Plantin-Moretus Museum, and then to Reading for postgraduate work. He published "Johnston's Underground Type" for the London Transport Museum in 2000. Justin was a typographer as well as a printing historian. He was responsible for designing many books. He was chair of the Friends of St. Bride from 1998-2003. He died in February 2005 at age 42. Obituary. Quote by Nick Shinn: "Founders Caslon is a trompe l'oeil masterpiece, a carefully crafted amalgam of subtle judgements as to what will best mimic the desired patina of 18th century typography." Obituary at St. Bride. Old URL (now occupied by squatters). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

ImageLine

Virginia-based software company which exists since the mid 1990s and "made" a few thousand fonts (mostly renamed from elsewhere). It is headed by George P. Riddick III. Occasionally, we can find these fonts nowadays in archives such as DaFont. They were involved in a lot of litigation on both sides of the fence, and it appears that they are no longer in the font business. However, they still run a clip art operation and state: For over 20 years Imageline, Inc. has been one of the Computer Industry's leading sources for High-Quality Clip Art and other value-added "Graphic Arts Content", such as templates, logos, and animations. Riddick sues the pants off anyone who uses any of his clip art things on a web site or in a publication. But he himself copied thousands of fonts without blinking an eye. May his breath forever smell like a wildebeest's ass. The fonts:

• AberaHam9-SPBold, AberaHam9, AborigianlKite91-SPBold, AborigianlKite91, AboutFace33-SPBold, AboutFace33, AboutFace33, AboutFace33Stch, Abracadabra91-Ext, Abracadabra91-SPBold, Abracadabra91, Abracadabra91SupCon, AdVentura33-Condensed, AdVentura33-Ext, AdVentura33-SPBold, AdVentura33, AdVentura33, AdVentura33Stch, AdVentura33SupCon, AdriAnna44-Ext, AdriAnna44-SPBold, AdriAnna44, AdriAnna44, AdriAnna44, AdriAnna44Stch, AdriAnna44SupCon, AfterLife113-SPBold, AfterLife113, AfterLife113, AgainstTheWind49-SPBold, AgainstTheWind49, AlexOne83-Ext, AlexOne83-SPBold, AlexOne83, AlexOne83, AlexOne83Stch, AlexOne83SupCon, AlteredStates67-SPBold, AlteredStates67, AncientMariner19-SPBold, AncientMariner19, AnimalSilenceText122-SPBold, AnimalSilenceText122, AnitaFlairWay68-SPBold, AnitaFlairWay68, AnnaLisaFont71-Ext, AnnaLisaFont71-SPBold, AnnaLisaFont71, AnnaLisaFont71Stch, AnnaLisaFont71SupCon, ArtPursuit117, ArtRecord114-Ext, ArtRecord114-SPBold, ArtRecord114, ArtRecord114Stch, ArtTimesReg52, ArtisTicMyth-SPBold, ArtisTicMyth, ArtisTicMythStch, ArtistPursuit117-Condensed, ArtistPursuit117-SPBold, ArtyTimesReg52-Condensed, ArtyTimesReg52-SPBold, AtLeisureWorld76-SPBold, AtLeisureWorld76, AuthurFont110-Condensed, AuthurFont110-Ext, AuthurFont110-SPBold, AuthurFont110, AuthurFont110, AuthurFont110Stch, AuthurFont110Stch, AuthurFont110SupCon, AwkWard8-SPBold, AwkWard8
• BabyMaker35-SPBold, BabyMaker35Stch, BackScratcher-SPBold, BackWater52-SPBold, BadhHabit71-SPBold, BadhHabit71, BadhHabit71SupCon, BadlyChipped66-SPBold, BadlyChipped66, BaggageMasterText79-Condensed, BaggageMasterText79-SPBold, BarnYard77-SPBold, BarnYard77, BarneyWay5-Condensed, BarneyWay5-Ext, BarneyWay5-SPBold, BarneyWay5, BasicClassA156a-SPBold, BasicClassA156a, BathingBeauty66-SPBold, BathingBeauty66, BeachComber65-Condensed, BeachComber65-SPBold, BearMarketGear7-SPBold, BearMarketGear7, BeavertonPlace-Ext, BeavertonPlace, BedFord-SPBold, BedFord, BelindaType67-Condensed, BelindaType67-Ext, BelindaType67-SPBold, BelindaType67, BelindaType67, BelindaType67Stch, BelindaType67SupCon, BestSevenFont77-Ext, BestShotText56-Ext, BestShotText56-SPBold, BestShotText56, BestShotText56, BestShotText56Stch, BestShotText56SupCon, BetaTechFont65-Ext, BetaTechFont65-SPBold, BetaTechFont65, BetaTechFont65, BetaTechFont65Stch, BetaTechFont65SupCon, BigBrushFont19-SPBold, BigBrushFont19, BigFictionText-SPBold, BigFictionText, BillionsFont-Ext, BillionsFont-SPBold, BillionsFont, BillyTheKid65-SPBold, BillyTheKid65, BlazingHeat9-SPBold, BlazingHeat9, BoastingTextLight116-SPBold, BoastingTextLight116, BocciText13-SPBold, BocciText13, BocciWorksBold55-SPBold, BocciWorksBold55, BohemianRap7-SPBold, BohemianRap7, BoobShellText125-SPBold, BoobShellText125, BoogieWoogieBold112-SPBold, BoogieWoogieBold112, BoosterRocketLight83-SPBold, BoosterRocketLight83, BostonLifeToday1-SPBold, BostonLifeToday1, BottomOutOne104-SPBold, BottomOutOne104, BounceBackText110-SPBold, BounceBackText110, BoyHoodDrive-SPBold, BrainChildFont-SPBold, BrainChildFont, BrawnyArmsLight99-SPBold, BrawnyArmsLight99, BrawnyArmsLight99Stch, BrawnyArmsLight99SupCon, BrokenArrowDrive-Condensed, BrokenArrowDrive-Ext, BrokenArrowDrive-SPBold, BrokenArrowDrive, BrushMagicText78-Ext, BrushMagicText78-SPBold, BrushMagicText78, BrushMagicText78Stch, BrushMagicText78SupCon, BrushMasterFont12-Condensed, BrushMasterFont12-Ext, BrushMasterFont12-SPBold, BrushMasterFont12Stch, BurningFactsText79-SPBold
• CanDiceFont35-Ext, CanDiceFont35-SPBold, CanDiceFont35, CanDiceFont35, CanDiceFont35Stch, CanDiceFont35SupCon, CanToshaText63-Ext, CanToshaText63-SPBold, CanToshaText63, CanToshaText63, CanToshaText63Stch, CanToshaText63SupCon, CapSizeBold-SPBold, CapSizeBold, CarParkText33-SPBold, CarParkText33, CarnegieWay32-SPBold, CaterPillarDrive72-SPBold, CaterPillarDrive72, CavilUS115-Ext, CavilUS115-SPBold, CavilUS115, CavilUS115, CavilUS115Stch, CavilUS115SupCon, CelticBreezeLight80-SPBold, CelticBreezeLight80, CelticBreezeLight80SupCon, ChamberDoorsOpen99-SPBold, ChamberDoorsOpen99, ChangeCourseFont56-SPBold, ChangeCourseFont56, CharkText116-Condensed, CharkText116-Ext, CharkText116-Ext, CharkText116-SPBold, CharkText116, CharkText116, CharkText116Stch, CharkText116Stch, CharkText116SupCon, CheersTypeNorm13-Condensed, CheersTypeNorm13-Ext, CheersTypeNorm13-SPBold, CheersTypeNorm13, CheersTypeNorm13Stch, CheersTypeNorm13SupCon, ChildsPlayType64-Condensed, ChildsPlayType64-Ext, ChildsPlayType64-SPBold, ChildsPlayType64, ChildsPlayType64Stch, ChildsPlayType64SupCon, ChinaOneDirect47-SPBold, ChinaOneDirect47, ChristianChicText65-SPBold, ChristianChicText65, ChristianChicText65SupCon, ChristinaFontLight555-Ext, ChristinaFontLight555-SPBold, ChristinaFontLight555, ChristinaFontLight555, ChristinaFontLight555Stch, ChristinaFontLight555SupCon, CityScapeNorm48-Condensed, CityScapeNorm48-Ext, CityScapeNorm48-Ext, CityScapeNorm48-SPBold, CityScapeNorm48-SPBold, CityScapeNorm48, CityScapeNorm48, CityScapeNorm48Stch, CityScapeNorm48Stch, CityScapeNorm48SupCon, ClarkNorm107-Condensed, ClarkNorm107-Ext, ClarkNorm107-Ext, ClarkNorm107-SPBold, ClarkNorm107, ClarkNorm107, ClarkNorm107Stch, ClarkNorm107Stch, ClarkNorm107SupCon, ClassicBookerFont77-Condensed, ClassicBookerFont77-Ext, ClassicBookerFont77-SPBold, ClassicBookerFont77, ClassicBookerFont77Stch, ClassicBookerFont77SupCon, ClassicFont104-Condensed, ClassicFont104-Ext, ClassicFont104-Ext, ClassicFont104-SPBold, ClassicFont104, ClassicFont104, ClassicFont104Stch, ClassicFont104Stch, ClassicFont104SupCon, ClassicFont104SupCon, CleanCut56-SPBold, CleanCut56, ClearFall54-SPBold, ClearFall54, ClearFall54SupCon, ClowningWayText-Condensed, ClowningWayText-Ext, ClowningWayText-SPBold, ClowningWayText, ClowningWayTextStch, ClowningWayTextSupCon, ClowningWayTextSupCon, CoastWise67-Condensed, CoastWise67-Ext, CoastWise67-SPBold, CoastWise67, CoastWise67SupCon, CoinageOfMind-SPBold, CoolHandLuke-SPBold, CoolHandLuke, CoolHandLukeSupCon, CosmicFlushText8-SPBold, CosmicFlushText8, CountryLove3-SPBold, CountryLove3, CountryLove3Stch, CowGirl156a-Condensed, CowGirl156a-Ext, CowGirl156a-SPBold, CowGirl156a, CowGirl156aStch, CowGirl156aSupCon, CreativePower-Condensed, CreativePower-Ext, CreativePower-SPBold, CreativePower, CreativePowerStch, CreativeThoughtText124-SPBold, CreativeThoughtText124, CrossFireFont-Condensed, CrossFireFont-Ext, CrossFireFont-SPBold, CrowsFeetLight94-Condensed, CrowsFeetLight94-Ext, CrowsFeetLight94-SPBold, CrowsFeetLight94, CrowsFeetLight94Stch, CrowsFeetLight94SupCon, CuteEnvy127-Ext, CuteEnvy127-SPBold
• DamselWalkFont71-Condensed, DamselWalkFont71-Ext, DamselWalkFont71-SPBold, DamselWalkFont71, DanaText66-Condensed, DanaText66-Ext, DanaText66-SPBold, DanaText66, DanaText66, DanaText66Stch, DanaText66SupCon, DanceOfTheBrush11-Condensed, DanceOfTheBrush11-Ext, DanceOfTheBrush11-SPBold, DanceOfTheBrush11, DanceOfTheBrush11Stch, DancePrancer, DancerPrancer-SPBold, DancingComfort39-Condensed, DancingComfort39-Ext, DancingComfort39-SPBold, DancingComfort39, DancingComfort39Stch, DancingComfort39SupCon, DangerousScript27-SPBold, DangerousScript27, DangerousScript27SupCon, DarkGray50-Condensed, DarkGray50-Ext, DarkGray50-SPBold, DarkGray50, DarkGray50SupCon, DeGarThin6-Condensed, DeGarThin6-Ext, DeGarThin6-SPBold, DeGarThin6, DeGarThin6Stch, DevotedWorship107-SPBold, DevotedWorship107, DevotedWorship107Stch, DevotedWorship107SupCon, DisCardedWriting85-Ext, DisCardedWriting85-SPBold, DisCardedWriting85SupCon, DisPlacedFont-Condensed, DisPlacedFont-SPBold, DisPlacedFontStch, DoorKeeper41-Condensed, DoorKeeper41-SPBold, DoorKeeper41, DoorKeeper41SupCon, DoubleAgent43-SPBold, DownWardSlope77-Ext, DownWardSlope77-SPBold, DownWardSlope77, DroPcapperType101-Ext, DroPcapperType101-SPBold, DroPcapperType101-SPBold, DroPcapperType101Stch, DroPcapperType101SupCon, DroopingPaintText56-SPBold, DroopingPaintText56, DroopingPaintText56, DropCapsText100-Ext, DropCapsText100-SPBold, DropCapsText100-SPBold, DropCapsText100, DropCapsText100, DropCapsText100Stch, DropCapsText100SupCon
• EagleType121-Ext, EagleType121-Ext, EagleType121-SPBold, EagleType121, EagleType121, EagleType121Stch, EagleType121SupCon, EggBeater86-SPBold, EggShell61-Ext, EggShell61-SPBold, EggShell61Stch, EggShell61SupCon, ElaineFont81-Condensed, ElaineFont81-Ext, ElaineFont81-Ext, ElaineFont81-SPBold, ElaineFont81, ElaineFont81, ElaineFont81Stch, ElaineFont81Stch, ElaineFont81SupCon, ElasticTrainFont59-SPBold, ElasticTrainFont59, ElectricWave7-Ext, ElectricWave7-SPBold, ElectricWave7, ElectricWave7SupCon, Elegance104-Condensed, Elegance104-Ext, Elegance104-SPBold, Elegance104, Elegance104SupCon, ElvisSaxHorn45-Ext, ElvisSaxHorn45-SPBold, ElvisSaxHorn45-SPBold, ElvisSaxHorn45Stch, EmPower42-Condensed, EmPower42-Ext, EmPower42-Ext, EmPower42-SPBold, EmPower42, EmPower42Stch, EmPower42SupCon, EricBrush21-Condensed, EricBrush21-Ext, EricBrush21-SPBold, EricBrush21SupCon, EverettText67-SPBold, EverettText67, ExPertType50-Ext, ExPertType50-SPBold, ExPertType50, ExPertType50Stch, ExPertType50SupCon, ExplosiveNoise119-SPBold
• FairChild85-Condensed, FairChild85-Ext, FairChild85-Ext, FairChild85-SPBold, FairChild85, FairChild85Stch, FairChild85SupCon, FairTrade53-Ext, FairTrade53-SPBold, FancyVapor-SPBold, FancyVapor, FarPoint41-SPBold, FarPoint41, FarPoint41SupCon, FastPardonType32-Ext, FastPardonType32-Ext, FastPardonType32-SPBold, FastPardonType32Stch, FastPardonType32Stch, FatBackPlus14-Ext, FatBackPlus14-SPBold, FatBackPlus14, FatBackPlus14Stch, FatBackPlus14SupCon, FateScriptText29-SPBold, FeltPointNew35-Ext, FeltPointNew35-SPBold, FeltPointNew35Stch, FertileMindPlus-SPBold, FinalMandate77-Ext, FinalMandate77-SPBold, FireWalk36-SPBold, FireWalk36, FireWalk36Stch, FirstHome34-Condensed, FirstHome34-Ext, FirstHome34-SPBold, FirstHome34, FirstHome34SupCon, FlatBrush36-SPBold, FlatBrush36, FlowerCapsText1222-Ext, FlowerCapsText1222-SPBold, FlowerCapsText1222, FlowerCapsText1222Stch, FlowerCapsText1222SupCon, FluctuantLight37-Ext, FluctuantLight37-SPBold, FluctuantLight37, FluctuantLight37Stch, FluctuantLight37SupCon, FlyingDutchMan1-SPBold, FontChordNew62-SPBold, FontChordNew62Stch, FontFever26-Condensed, FontFever26-Ext, FontFever26-SPBold, FontFever26, FontFever26Stch, FontFever26SupCon, FoolHartOld27-Ext, FoolHartOld27-SPBold, FootLoose43-Ext, FootLoose43-SPBold, FootLoose43, FootLoose43Stch, FootLoose43SupCon, FooteDragging911-Condensed, FooteDragging911-SPBold, FootenHold-SPBold, FootenHold, ForeStall-SPBold, ForeStall, FranklinBook49-Ext, FranklinBook49-SPBold, FreeTimeBold14-Ext, FreeTimeBold14-SPBold, FreshCapFont120-Ext, FreshCapFont120-SPBold, FreshCapFont120, FreshCapFont120Stch, FreshCapFont120Stch, FreshCapFont120SupCon, FuddyDuddy118-SPBold, FuddyDuddy118Stch, FutureType59-Condensed, FutureType59-Ext, FutureType59-Ext, FutureType59-SPBold, FutureType59, FutureType59Stch, FutureType59Stch, FutureType59SupCon
• GalacticFuss72-Ext, GalacticFuss72-SPBold, GalacticFuss72, GalacticFuss72Stch, GalacticFuss72SupCon, GambitMoveType103-Condensed, GambitMoveType103-Ext, GambitMoveType103-SPBold, GambitMoveType103, GambitMoveType103Stch, GambitMoveType103SupCon, GanturyFont86-Condensed, GanturyFont86-Ext, GanturyFont86-SPBold, GanturyFont86, GanturyFont86Stch, GanturyFont86SupCon, GarDeningTools84-Condensed, GarDeningTools84-Ext, GarDeningTools84-SPBold, GarDeningTools84, GarDeningTools84Stch, GarDeningTools84SupCon, GatlingGun24-Condensed, GatlingGun24-Ext, GatlingGun24-SPBold, GatlingGun24, GatlingGun24Stch, GatlingGun24SupCon, GeneralMotionFont110-Condensed, GeneralMotionFont110-Ext, GeneralMotionFont110-SPBold, GeneralMotionFont110, GeneralMotionFont110Stch, GeneralMotionFont110SupCon, GhostWriterText-Condensed, GhostWriterText-Ext, GhostWriterText-SPBold, GhostWriterText, GhostWriterTextStch, GhostWriterTextSupCon, GidieonType39-Ext, GidieonType39-Ext, GidieonType39-SPBold, GidieonType39, GidieonType39Stch, GidieonType39Stch, GidieonType39SupCon, GiftOfSong14-SPBold, GilBertText61-Ext, GilBertText61-Ext, GilBertText61-SPBold, GilBertText61, GilBertText61Stch, GilBertText61SupCon, GiveAndTake18-Condensed, GiveAndTake18-Ext, GiveAndTake18-SPBold, GiveAndTake18, GiveAndTake18Stch, GiveAndTake18SupCon, GlobeTrotterPlain20-Ext, GlobeTrotterPlain20-SPBold, GlobeTrotterPlain20Stch, GoalSetterPlus67-SPBold, GoalSetterPlus67, GoodMoodExtra31-Condensed, GoodMoodExtra31-Ext, GoodMoodExtra31-SPBold, GoodMoodExtra31, GoodMoodExtra31Stch, GoodMoodExtra31SupCon, GoodName74-Condensed, GoodName74-Ext, GoodName74-SPBold, GoodName74, GoodName74Stch, GoodName74SupCon, GramMy79-Ext, GramMy79-SPBold, GramMy79, GramMy79, GramMy79Stch, GramMy79SupCon, GraphLand40-Ext, GraphLand40-SPBold, GraphLand40, GraphLand40, GraphLand40Stch, GraphLand40SupCon, GraphicShoesText113-SPBold, GrayBeardPlus112-SPBold, GrayBeardPlus112SupCon, GreenWich4-SPBold
• HackDriverText155-SPBold, HackDriverText155, HandWriting53-Ext, HandWriting53-SPBold, HandWriting53, HandWriting53, HandWriting53Stch, HandWriting53SupCon, HandyMan94-Ext, HandyMan94-SPBold, HandyMan94, HandyMan94Stch, HandyMan94SupCon, HappyLandText27-SPBold, HappyLandText27, HardBrush-SPBold, HardBrush, HardeHeaded150-Condensed, HardeHeaded150-Ext, HardeHeaded150-SPBold, HardeHeaded150, HardeHeaded150Stch, HardeHeaded150SupCon, HardlyLeft55-SPBold, HardlyLeft55, HauntedEyes-SPBold, HauntedEyesSupCon, HeartLightBold70-Condensed, HeartLightBold70-Ext, HeartLightBold70-SPBold, HeartLightBold70, HeartLightBold70Stch, HeartLightBold70SupCon, HedgeHogFont22-Condensed, HedgeHogFont22-Ext, HedgeHogFont22-SPBold, HedgeHogFont22, HedgeHogFont22Stch, HedgeHogFont22SupCon, HelterSkelter83-SPBold, HelterSkelter83, HereAfter114-SPBold, HiResFont52-Ext, HiResFont52-SPBold, HiResFont52, HiResFont52Stch, HiResFont52SupCon, HighEmotions47-SPBold, HighGoal73-SPBold, HighMeaningPlus115-SPBold, HighMeaningPlus115, HighPurchase113-SPBold, HisQuarry4-SPBold, HisQuarry4, HistoricalDistortion117-Condensed, HistoricalDistortion117-Ext, HistoricalDistortion117-SPBold, HistoricalDistortion117, HistoricalDistortion117Stch, HistoricalDistortion117SupCon, HitOrMiss89-Condensed, HitOrMiss89-Ext, HitOrMiss89-SPBold, HitOrMiss89SupCon, HonestStokesLight4-SPBold, HorseManFont66-SPBold, HorseManFont66, HotFootPlain8-SPBold, HusandCurseType66-SPBold
• IdeaBate69-Ext, IdeaBate69-SPBold, ImageMaker25-SPBold, InPlainView76-SPBold, InPlainView76, InovatorFont-Condensed, InovatorFont-SPBold, InovatorFont, InterPlayText-SPBold, IronMaidenType84-SPBold, IronMaidenType84
• JabaCaps105-Ext, JabaCaps105-SPBold, JabaCaps105, JabaCaps105, JabaCaps105Stch, JabaCaps105Stch, JabaCaps105SupCon, JacksonBold72-SPBold, JapanScript911-Ext, JapanScript911-SPBold, JapanScript911, JapanScript911Stch, JapanScript911SupCon, JelindaFont52-Ext, JelindaFont52-SPBold, JelindaFont52, JelindaFont52Stch, JelindaFont52SupCon, JesaBellFont72-Ext, JesaBellFont72-SPBold, JesaBellFont72, JesaBellFont72Stch, JesaBellFont72SupCon, JoKer84-Ext, JoKer84-SPBold, JoKer84, JoKer84, JoKer84Stch, JoKer84SupCon, JohnJones10-Ext, JohnJones10-SPBold, JohnJones10, JohnJones10Stch, JohnsonText103-Condensed, JohnsonText103-Ext, JohnsonText103-Ext, JohnsonText103-SPBold, JohnsonText103, JohnsonText103, JohnsonText103Stch, JohnsonText103Stch, JohnsonText103SupCon, JoustPlus99-Condensed, JoustPlus99-Ext, JoustPlus99-Ext, JoustPlus99-SPBold, JoustPlus99, JoustPlus99, JoustPlus99Stch, JoustPlus99Stch, JoustPlus99SupCon, JulianWay-Condensed, JulianWay-Ext, JulianWay-SPBold, JulianWay, JulianWayStch, JulianWaySupCon, JurasakiFontBold83-Condensed, JurasakiFontBold83-Ext, JurasakiFontBold83-Ext, JurasakiFontBold83-SPBold, JurasakiFontBold83, JurasakiFontBold83, JurasakiFontBold83Stch, JurasakiFontBold83SupCon, JustGood72-Condensed, JustGood72-Ext, JustGood72-SPBold, JustGood72, JustGood72Stch, JustGood72SupCon, JustStewType3-Condensed, JustStewType3-Ext, JustStewType3-SPBold, JustStewType3, JustStewType3Stch, JustStewType3SupCon, JusticePlain112-Condensed, JusticePlain112-Ext, JusticePlain112-Ext, JusticePlain112-SPBold, JusticePlain112, JusticePlain112, JusticePlain112Stch, JusticePlain112Stch, JusticePlain112SupCon
• KeyLogo34-Condensed, KeyLogo34-Ext, KeyLogo34-Ext, KeyLogo34-SPBold, KeyLogo34, KeyLogo34, KeyLogo34Stch, KeyLogo34SupCon, KingsFont125-Condensed, KingsFont125-Ext, KingsFont125-Ext, KingsFont125-SPBold, KingsFont125, KingsFont125, KingsFont125Stch, KingsFont125Stch, KingsFont125SupCon, KizerFaxType65-Condensed, KizerFaxType65-Ext, KizerFaxType65-SPBold, KizerFaxType65, KlaksonType51-Ext, KlaksonType51-SPBold, KlaksonType51, KlaksonType51SupCon, KnocksBold-SPBold.
• LancasterBold-SPBold, LawAndOrder-SPBold, LawAndOrder, LeapYear113-SPBold, LeatherBrushExt24-SPBold, LetterPerfect37-SPBold, LetterPerfect37, LightWave, LightWave114-Ext, LightWave114-SPBold, LightWave114, LightWave114SupCon, LighteFlair10-SPBold, LightingRod60-Ext, LightingRod60-SPBold, LightingRod60, LightingRod60SupCon, LipService90-SPBold, LiquidAssets98-SPBold, LittleSquirtFont13-SPBold, LittleSquirtFont13, LivingWellText52-SPBold, LogicDisk63-SPBold, LogicDisk63, LongTeeth61-SPBold, LowGlow95-SPBold, LucyFont95-Ext, LucyFont95-SPBold, LucyFont95, LucyFont95SupCon
• MacBeth79-SPBold, MachineGun23-SPBold, MagNolia38-Ext, MagNolia38-Ext, MagNolia38-SPBold, MagNolia38, MagNolia38SupCon, Magic117-Ext, Magic117-SPBold, Magic117, Magic117SupCon, MainPhrase112-SPBold, MakeShift27-SPBold, MakenWell16-SPBold, ManCalled68-SPBold, ManChildText69-SPBold, MarketProduct, MarketProduct72-SPBold, MarketProduct72, MasacellaBold155-SPBold, MasterMind18-SPBold, MatterOfFact96-SPBold, MeltedText62-SPBold, MetalPenNew113-Ext, MetalPenNew113-SPBold, MetalPenNew113, MetalPenNew113SupCon, MidVictorian117-SPBold, MidVictorian117Stch, MideEastFont-Condensed, MideEastFont-SPBold, MideEastFont, MideEastFontStch, MilkyWayBold53-SPBold, MillTownBuf64-SPBold, MillTownBuf64, MindSetFont29-SPBold, MindSetFont29, MisConductFont-SPBold, MisConductFont, MissingLink9-SPBold, MoHawkLight82-Ext, MoHawkLight82-Ext, MoHawkLight82-SPBold, MoHawkLight82, MoHawkLight82Stch, MoHawkLight82SupCon, ModernArt71-SPBold, ModernArt71, MoleHill30-SPBold, MoneyScapePlus68-SPBold, MoneyScapePlus68, MonkeyPlusBold62-SPBold, MoonDogText111-Ext, MoonDogText111-Ext, MoonDogText111-SPBold, MoonDogText111, MoonDogText111Stch, MoonDogText111SupCon, MorEhouseType97-Condensed, MorEhouseType97-Ext, MorEhouseType97-SPBold, MorEhouseType97, MorEhouseType97, MorEhouseType97Stch, MorEhouseType97SupCon, MorganWay89-Ext, MorganWay89-SPBold, MorganWay89, MorganWay89Stch, MorganWay89SupCon, MuggyNew84-Ext, MuggyNew84-SPBold, MuggyNew84, MuggyNew84Stch, MuggyNew84SupCon, MummyLikeNew111-Condensed, MummyLikeNew111-SPBold, MuseumPieceFont68-SPBold, MushRoomCloud90-SPBold, MushRoomCloud90, MutualChangeExt-SPBold
• NeedFulThings12-SPBold, NeedFulThings12, NeedleWorker86-SPBold, NeoLith123-Ext, NeoLith123-SPBold, NewModelType127-SPBold, NewModelType127, NewsMessenger120-SPBold, NormalBrush24-SPBold, NormalBrush24, NormalBrush24SupCon, NorthernExposure46-Ext, NorthernExposure46-SPBold, NorthernExposure46, NumbSkull49-SPBold, NumberTest44-Ext, NumberTest44-SPBold, NumberTest44, NuttyCake88-SPBold, NuttyCake88SupCon
• ObjectDArt71-SPBold, ObjectDArt71, ObjectDArt71SupCon, OfficalTyrant17-SPBold, OfficalTyrant17, OldeWallStreet54, OldedGeorge1-SPBold, OldedGeorge1, OldenConnection2-SPBold, OldenConnection2, OldenWestType69-SPBold, OldenWestType69, OlderEnglishCaps118-Ext, OlderEnglishCaps118-SPBold, OlderEnglishCaps118, OlderEnglishCaps118, OlderEnglishCaps118Stch, OlderEnglishCaps118SupCon, OldingSpiriT76-Ext, OldingSpiriT76-SPBold, OldingSpiriT76, OldingSpiriT76, OldingSpiriT76Stch, OldingSpiriT76SupCon, OldyStyleType102-Ext, OldyStyleType102-SPBold, OldyStyleType102, OldyStyleType102, OldyStyleType102Stch, OldyStyleType102SupCon, OliveOil43-SPBold, OliveOil43, OmegaType93-Ext, OmegaType93-SPBold, OmegaType93, OmegaType93, OmegaType93Stch, OmegaType93SupCon, OnTheSpot80-SPBold, OnTheSpot80, OneChildType15-SPBold, OneChildType15, OneChildType15Stch, OneChildType15SupCon, OnesOwnFont79-SPBold, OnesOwnFont79, OnesOwnFont79SupCon, OpenClassicFont74-SPBold, OpenClassicFont74, OtherView-SPBold, OtherView, OutWorn27-SPBold, OutWorn27
• PackAway35-SPBold, PackAway35, PaddedCell65-SPBold, PaddedCell65, PaidInFull32-SPBold, PaidInFull32, PaintStroke, PaintStroke58-Ext, PaintStroke58-SPBold, PaintStroke58, PaintStroke58, PaintStroke58Stch, PaintStroke58SupCon, PaleFace-SPBold, PaleFace, ParagonView38, PasserBy41-SPBold, PasserBy41, PathFinderType5-SPBold, PathFinderType5, PeoplesType121-SPBold, PeoplesType121, PetPeeve61-SPBold, PetPeeve61, PicketsChargeFont59-Condensed, PicketsChargeFont59-SPBold, PicketsChargeFont59, PlatoFontNew113-Ext, PlatoFontNew113-SPBold, PlatoFontNew113, PlatoFontNew113, PlatoFontNew113Stch, PlatoFontNew113SupCon, PoeticDreamer-SPBold, PoeticDreamer, PoetryInMotion101-SPBold, PoetryInMotion101, PoliceMan63-Condensed, PoliceMan63-SPBold, PoliceMan63, PoliceMan63SupCon, PorkBarrelFont-SPBold, PorkBarrelFont, PortLandType-Condensed, PortLandType-SPBold, PortLandType, PortLandTypeStch, PortLandTypeSupCon, PositiveNew45-Condensed, PositiveNew45-SPBold, PositiveNew45, PositiveNew45, PositiveNew45Stch, PositiveNew45Stch, PositiveNew45SupCon, PostBoyText60-Condensed, PostBoyText60-SPBold, PostBoyText60, PostBoyText60Stch, PowerDriverNew20, PowerSymbolPlus-Ext, PowerSymbolPlus-SPBold, PowerSymbolPlus, PresenterPlus64-SPBold, PresenterPlus64, PrestoDone38-SPBold, PrestoDone38, PrettyGirl21-SPBold, PrettyGirl21, PrettyThreatFont69-SPBold, PrettyThreatFont69, ProVisionFont-SPBold, ProVisionFont, ProVisionFontStch, ProVisionFontSupCon, PromisedLandPlus21-SPBold, PromisedLandPlus21, PuppyLikeNew32-Condensed, PuppyLikeNew32-SPBold, PuppyLikeNew32, PutForthNew40-SPBold, PutForthNew40
• QuickJump37-SPBold, QuickJump37, QuickView-SPBold, QuickView
• RaceHorse47-Ext, RaceHorse47-SPBold, RaceHorse47, RaceHorse47, RaceHorse47Stch, RaceHorse47SupCon, RachelNew92-Ext, RachelNew92-SPBold, RachelNew92, RachelNew92, RachelNew92Stch, RachelNew92SupCon, ReCallComplete-SPBold, ReCallComplete, ReMinder106-Ext, ReMinder106-SPBold, ReMinder106, ReMinder106, ReMinder106SupCon, ReaderShipFinal-SPBold, ReaderShipFinal, RealBrush49-SPBold, RealBrush49, RealVirtue19-SPBold, RealVirtue19, RebuffText-Ext, RebuffText-SPBold, RebuffText, RebuffText, RebuffTextSupCon, ReservedText46-SPBold, ReservedText46, ReturnToEarth42-SPBold, ReturnToEarth42, ReversalSubject41-SPBold, ReversalSubject41, RibbonArt68-SPBold, RibbonArt68, RickShaw90-Ext, RickShaw90-SPBold, RickShaw90, RickShaw90, RickShaw90SupCon, RiskyBusiness-SPBold, RiskyBusiness, RiverOfDreams-SPBold, RiverOfDreams, RoaringFire96, RobinHood98-Ext, RobinHood98-SPBold, RobinHood98, RobinHood98, RobinHood98SupCon, RoseyCapsFinal57-SPBold, RoseyCapsFinal57, RoughRiderType60-SPBold, RoughRiderType60, RoyalBaseExt-SPBold, RoyalBaseExt, RoyalBrushNew20-SPBold, RoyalBrushNew20, RoyalLuster67-SPBold, RoyalLuster67, RoyalSireText50-SPBold, RoyalSireText50, RuleOfThumb-SPBold, RuleOfThumb, RumbleSeatFinal-SPBold, RumbleSeatFinal
• SargonOne41-Condensed, SargonOne41-SPBold, SargonOne41, SaucyMozartOne44-SPBold, SaucyMozartOne44, SavorNowText43-Ext, SavorNowText43, ScentedMintExt47-Condensed, ScentedMintExt47-SPBold, ScentedMintExt47, ScentedMintExt47Stch, ScentedMintExt47SupCon, SchoolBoy, SchoolBoyOld80-Condensed, SchoolBoyOld80-Ext, SchoolBoyOld80-SPBold, SchoolBoyOld80, SchoolBoyOld80, SchoolBoyOld80SupCon, ScrewBallFinal-SPBold, ScrewBallFinal, ScriptSongBold15-Condensed, ScriptSongBold15-SPBold, ScriptSongBold15, ScriptWriterText-SPBold, ScriptWriterText, ScuttleButtNew-Ext, ScuttleButtNew-SPBold, ScuttleButtNew, SeamStressFnal-SPBold, SeamStressFnal, SecondNature-SPBold, SecondNature, SelfImage69-Ext, SelfImage69-SPBold, SelfImage69, SelfImage69, SelfImage69SupCon, ShaShaText36-Ext, ShaShaText36-SPBold, ShaShaText36, ShaShaText36, ShaShaText36SupCon, SharpTypeOld-SPBold, SharpTypeOld, ShelmanFont49-Ext, ShelmanFont49-SPBold, ShelmanFont49, ShelmanFont49, ShelmanFont49SupCon, SherWoodFont99-Ext, SherWoodFont99-SPBold, SherWoodFont99, SherWoodFont99, SherWoodFont99SupCon, ShortMemoryNew-SPBold, ShortMemoryNew, SingOutNew62-Ext, SingOutNew62-SPBold, SingOutNew62, SingOutNew62, SingOutNew62SupCon, SketchyIdeaText5-SPBold, SketchyIdeaText5, SkinTightReal74-Ext, SkinTightReal74-SPBold, SkinTightReal74, SkinTightReal74, SkinTightReal74SupCon, SlashTankMaker33-SPBold, SlashTankMaker33, SleepWalkerFinal9, SmallRoseExt45-SPBold, SmallRoseExt45, SmokeAgent150-SPBold, SmokeAgent150, SmoothFontNew75-Ext, SmoothFontNew75-SPBold, SmoothFontNew75, SmoothFontNew75, SmoothFontNew75SupCon, SnowWrite-SPBold, SnowWrite, SodaJerk19-SPBold, SodaJerk19, SoundStudioBold12, SpareTimeFont82, SparrowNew119-Ext, SparrowNew119-SPBold, SparrowNew119, SparrowNew119, SparrowNew119Stch, SparrowNew119SupCon, SpeakingStyleExt106-SPBold, SpeakingStyleExt106, SplashFontStyle, StakeWorks108-Ext, StakeWorks108-SPBold, StakeWorks108, StakeWorks108, StakeWorks108Stch, StakeWorks108SupCon, StandardBrushFont54-Ext, StandardBrushFont54-SPBold, StandardBrushFont54, StandardBrushFont54, StandardBrushFont54Stch, StandardBrushFont54SupCon, StateOfAffairs122-SPBold, StateOfAffairs122, StatelyTypeStyle77-Ext, StatelyTypeStyle77-SPBold, StatelyTypeStyle77, StatelyTypeStyle77, StatelyTypeStyle77Stch, StatelyTypeStyle77SupCon, SteepleChaser71, StickerMade-SPBold, StickerMade, StickerMadeStch, StoneAge124-SPBold, StoneAge124, StudentTeacher111, StyleBrandFinal61-SPBold, StyleBrandFinal61, StyleMongerBold73-Ext, StyleMongerBold73-SPBold, StyleMongerBold73, StyleMongerBold73, StyleMongerBold73SupCon, SunDownBold98-SPBold, SunDownBold98, SuperSederNorm2-SPBold, SuperSederNorm2, SuperSederNorm2SupCon, SuperThinNorm53-Ext, SuperThinNorm53-SPBold, SuperThinNorm53, SuperThinNorm53, SuperTypeStyle99-SPBold, SuperTypeStyle99, SuperTypeStyle99Stch, SwashBuckler13-SPBold, SwashBuckler13, SweetPea16, SweetTime78, SwingDown63, SwishNorm64-Ext, SwishNorm64-SPBold, SwishNorm64, SwishNorm64, SwishNorm64Stch, SwishNorm64SupCon, SwishWorks55, SystemTaker52
• TabithaType32-Ext, TabithaType32-SPBold, TabithaType32, TabithaType32, TabithaType32Stch, TabithaType32SupCon, TabithaType32-SPBold, TabithaType32-Condensed, TadPole-SPBold, TadPole, TailSpin-SPBold, TailSpin, TakeOver, TearGas25-SPBold, TearGas25, TechnoWorks70-Ext, TechnoWorks70-SPBold, TechnoWorks70, TechnoWorks70, TechnoWorks70Stch, TechnoWorks70SupCon, TennisBum64-SPBold, TennisBum64, TextureCover54-SPBold, TextureCover54, TheHawkFont46-SPBold, TheHawkFont46, TheSixtyText63-SPBold, TheSixtyText63, ThrillOfText28-SPBold, ThrillOfText28, TickTock18-SPBold, TickTock18, TigerFont16-SPBold, TigerFont16, TimeScarred119-SPBold, TimeScarred119, TombStoneFont60-Ext, TombStoneFont60-SPBold, TombStoneFont60, TorchHandler56-SPBold, TorchHandler56, TouchDown-SPBold, TouchDown, TouchTheWind59, TracyTracy68-Ext, TracyTracy68-SPBold, TracyTracy68, TracyTracy68, TracyTracy68Stch, TracyTracy68SupCon, TransPose95-SPBold, TransPose95, TriBecca90-Ext, TriBecca90-SPBold, TriBecca90, TriBecca90, TriBecca90Stch, TriBecca90SupCon, TrickyLake11-SPBold, TrickyLake11, TrojanFinal87-Ext, TrojanFinal87-SPBold, TrojanFinal87, TrojanFinal87, TrojanFinal87Stch, TrojanFinal87SupCon, TrueExcess105-SPBold, TrueExcess105, TurnAbout121-SPBold, TurnAbout121, TurnOil27-SPBold, TurnOil27, TurningPoint57-SPBold, TurningPoint57, Twiggy86-Ext, Twiggy86-SPBold, Twiggy86, Twiggy86, Twiggy86SupCon, TwoShakes5-SPBold, TwoShakes5, TylerFont88-Ext, TylerFont88-SPBold, TylerFont88, TylerFont88, TylerFont88SupCon, TypeMaker57-Ext, TypeMaker57-SPBold, TypeMaker57, TypeMaker57, TypeMaker57SupCon, TypeOne9-SPBold, TypeOne9, TypeTalkBold58-SPBold, TypeTalkBold58
• UltiMateText-SPBold, UltiMateText, UnCreative6-SPBold, UnCreative6, UnDiluted-SPBold, UnDiluted, UnExplored-SPBold, UnExplored, UnSnarl60-SPBold, UnSnarl60, UnderGround59-SPBold, UnderGround59, UnderPressure81-SPBold, UnderPressure81, UnderWay69-SPBold, UnderWay69, UnitedLand, UseFulSpectator123-SPBold, UseFulSpectator123
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Intellecta Design
[Paulo W]

Design company in Brazil run by Paulo W (b. 1970) from Recife. Paulo W is a gaúcho (Brazilian southerner), with interests in multiple areas, including poetry (he has published the digital opus Magical Book), graphic design and, most recently, type design. Dafont link. MyFonts. MyFonts link. Abstract Fonts link. YWFT link. Behance link. Blog. Home page. Fonthaus. Monotype. Eshops. Facebook. Flickr. Klingspor link. Wordpress. Devian tart. T26. Linkedin. Identifont. Linotype. ITC. Faces.co. His typefaces:

• Free fonts: Figgins Brute Trash (grunge), Fontaniolo Beveled (2011, ornamental caps), Czech Gotika (2011), Random Dingbats (2011), Victorian Free Ornaments (2011), Rustic (2011), Armorial (2011), Woman Silhouettes (2011), The Nile Song (2010, hieroglyphics), Smith Typewriter (2009), Sign Flags (2010, semaphore dingbats), Senectus Morbus (2010), MesoAmerica (2010, Indian symbols), ClassicSketches (2010, dingbats), Columns (2010, dingbats of Greek and Roman columns), EasyCuneiform (2010), EasyLombardicTwo (2010), EasyOpenFace (2010, blackboard bold style), Egidia (2010), Significante (2010, dingbats with, e.g., gender symbols), WhiteDominoes (2010, domino pieces), Easy Heraldics (2010), Intellecta Heraldics (2010), Heraldic Devices (2011), KidingsFree (2010, dingbats), RoughTuscan (2010), The French (2009, Fleur de Lys dings), AprendizCaligrafico (2010), Gaivota (2006), KurrentKupferstichThin (2006), PaulKlein (2010), PaulKleinTwo (2010), PortuguesArcaicoLectura (2005), ReproxScript (2009), RickGearyHomage (2007, scanbats), WestBalaio (2006, ornamental caps), Corto Maltese (2006, scanbats), Renaissance Coiffure (2006), Renaissance Ornaments (2007), Renaissance Shoes (2012, free), TTF Tattoef (2006, tattoo-inspired dingbats), ExperiTypo5 (2006), Lower Metal (2006), Geometric Serif PW (2006), Geometric (2006), Geometric Petras PW (2006), War II Warplanes (2005), Carbono (2005), Times New Vespasian (2005), BoldBold (2005), Vengeance (2005), Doppleganger (2005), Chancelaresca (2005), Cursivo Saxonio (2005), Gotische Minuskel 1269 (2005: a Kanzlei Schrift after Dekan Hermann zu Soest, 1269) and Guto Lacaz (2005, dingbats).
• Richard Gans revival project: Gans Tipo Adorno, Gans Lath Modern, Gans Titular Adornada (2006), Gans Ibarra (2006), Gans Antigua (2006), Gans Antigua Manuscrito (2006), Gans Radio Lumina (2006), Gans Fulgor (2006), Gans Carmem Adornada (2006), Gans Italiana (2006, extensive Italian-style slab serif family), Gans Titania (2007), Gans Titania Adornada (2007), Gans Titular (2007), Gans Gotico Globo (2007: 9 styles by Iza W), Gans Royality (2007: 3 styles by Iza W), Gans Headpieces (2008), Gans Rasgos Escritura (2010: filets---followed in 2011 by Rasgos Escritura Nuevos), Gan Esquinazos (2010, frames), Gans Blasones (2010, shields), Gans Neoclassic Fleurons (2008), Gans Classical Fleurons, Gans Ding.
• Wood-inspired faces: Dead Wood Rustic (2007), Taranatiritza (5 wood type styles, after William Hamilton Page), Majestade (2007, by Iza W---two Tuscan style faces), Decorative Tuscanian (2007), Concave Tuscan (2010, wood type), Palermo (2007, by Iza W---Tuscan style family), Teatro (2009, Tuscan), Bruce Double Pica (2009, Tuscan; the Beveled weight is free), Antique Extended (2010, slab serif wood type), Dark Wood (2009, gothic), Dark Wood Beveled (2011).
• Blackletter: Salterio (2012, +Trash, +Three, +Gradient, +Shadow, +Shadow Two), Leothric (2011, bastarda), Bruce 532 Blackletter (2011, after George Bruce), Schneider Buch Deutsch (2007, +Trash, +Shadowi, +Shadow Two), Schneidler halb fette Deutsch (2009, +Beveled), Schneidler Zierbuchstaben, Hostetler Fette Ultfraktur Ornamental (2007, blackletter caps), Gothic 16 CG (2007), Gothic 16 CG Decorative (2007, blackletter caps), Schneidler Grobe Gotisch (2008, Iza W, T-26), Allerlei Zierat (2008, ornament fonts based on a 1902 catalog of Schelter & Giesecke), Allerlei Zierat Capitals (2007), Psalter Gotisch (2009, a blackletter after the Benjamin Krebs blackletter face by the same name, ca. 1890), Münster-Gotische (2009, a blackletter family after a 1896 face by the same created by Schelter&Giesecke), Koberger N24 Schwabacher (2007), Student's Alphabet (2007, blackletter), Like Gutemberg Caps (2007), Nürnberg Schwabacher, Gotische Frame (2007: four framed blackletter styles by Iza W), Gotische (2007: ten ornate blackletter styles by Iza W), Gothic Garbage, Gothic Shadow, Gothic Trashed, Gothic Flourish (2009), Gotica Moderna (octagonal, blackletter), AltDeutsch (2007, four severe blackletter fonts by Iza W), Fin Fraktur, Gotische Bouffard, Heimat RGS, Gothic Handtooled Bastarda (2006), HostetlerFetteUltfrakturOrnamental (2007, blackletter caps), Gothic Handtooled Bastarda (2006).
• Historical revivals: Pantographia (2010: a digitization, as is, of several alphabets from Edmund Fry's Pantographia, 1799), Caslon2000, Caslon B, Delamotte Large Relief (2010), Figgins Brute (2007: 8 heavy Egyptian styles by Iza W based on Figgins' 1817 specimen book), Erased Figgins Brute (2007), Gras Vibert (2007, a didone family; followed by Gras Vibert Two in 2009).
• Erotic or human alphabets: American Way of Life (2011), oman Silhouettes (2011), Silvestre Weygel (2007, named after Martin Weygel'a erotic alphabet from 1560, which in turn was based on Peter Flötner's 1534 alphabet), Gravure (caps face made of human silhouettes), Innocence (2007, dingbats of girls).
• Medieval chancery hand: Portugues Arcaico (2005, three medieval handwriting styles), Kurrent Kupfertisch (2006, a medieval hand done with Fernanda Salmona), Dovtrina Christam 1622 (authentic old manuscript face), Catania (2007, exquisite medieval caps in 3 styles by Iza W).
• Typewriter faces: Neo Bulletin (2010, +Trash), Remington PW (old typewriter face), Olivetti Linea (old typewriter face), Erased Typewriter 2 (2007: 4 styles by Paulo W), RIP Typewriter (2009), Shadow Typewriter (2007), Underwood Typewriter (by Iza W).
• Calligraphic: Bradstone Parker Script (after Zaner's penmanship), Jan van den Velde Script (2011, based on the penmanship of Jan van den Velde as illustrated in vna den Velde's 1605 book Spieghel der schrijfkonste; developed jointly by Paulo and Iza W), Penabico (2010, with Iza W); Penabico is a free interpretation of the copperplate script styles to be found in the Universal Penman, London, 1741, by George Bickham---it contains over 1500 calligraphic glyphs and 250 ornaments. Samples of Penabico: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix), Easy Calig, Intellecta Mixed Script (2008), Spencerian Constancia (2008), Calligraphia Latina Soft2 (2008, calligraphic caps), Calligraphia Latina Soft4 (2010, quilled ornaments), Intellecta Script commercial (2009), Spencerian By Product (2009), Spencerian Palmer Penmanship Pro (2010), Indenture English Penman (2010), Calligraphia Latina (2008-2010, in weights called Soft2, Dense, 3, Soft4, Mixed, Square Edition).
• Victorian, Edwardian: Engel (2007, by Iza W in 15 styles that have a 1870s look), Compendium (Victorian), Costado (2009, a Victorian / Western face).
• Ornamental caps: Dolphus Mieg Alphabet (2011, +Two), Dolphus Mieg Monograms (2011), Human Nature (2011), English Arabesque Revival 1900 (2011), Imprenta Royal Nonpareil (2011), XVI Century Shaw Woodcuts (2011), Ichweis Caps (2011), Cherubim Caps (2011), Rara Beleza (2011), Gothic 1880 Revival (2011), Angelicaps (2010), Unnamed Caps Two (2010), VertiCaps (2010) Rebimboca Caps (2010), Rebimboca Beveled (2012, free), Rebimboca Gradient (2012, free), Rebimboca Trash (2012, free), Rebimboca Outlined (2012, free), Republica Presente (2010), Speedball Metropolitan Caps (2010, after a design by Ross F. George), Nice Initials (2010), Morphelic (2010), DurerGotischCapitals (2010), Egmontian (2007, ornamental caps family), Saducismus Triumphatus (ornamental caps), Vogus (Victorian caps), Victorian Ornamental Capitals (2009) and Frompac 1889 Arabesque (2007) [both are classical arabesques published in Ludwig Petzendorfer's Schriften-Atlas. Eine Sammlung der wichtigsten Schreib- und Druckschriften aus alter und neuer Zeit nebst Initialen, Monogrammen, Mappen, Landeskarten und heraldischen Motiven fur die praktischen Zwecke des Kunstgewerbes, 1889], Lettrines Petin (+Ornée), Numa Initials (2006), Gradl Initialen, Vampirevich (2009, ornamental caps), Paulus Franck 1602 (2006, ornate caps), Geodec (2006, baroque caps), HostetlerFetteUltfrakturOrnamental (2007, blackletter caps), Cadels (2007, ornate caps by Iza W), Manuscript XIV Century (2007, by Iza W--four Lombardic caps), Merona (2007, by Iza W--ten Lombardic caps fonts), Selena (2007, by Iza W---ornate Victorian caps), Leyenda (great Victorian era ornamental caps), Mixed Capital Style (2007, caps), Lenda (2008, capitals), Kidnaped at Old Times (2008, ornamental caps, ransom note style), Mortised Capitals, Is Not ABrazilian Font (handprinted blackboard bold caps), Robur The Conqueror (2009, ornamental caps), Georgia Capitals (2009), Decadence avec Elegance (exaggerated ornamental caps).
• The American Advertise series: American Advertise No. 9 (2008), American Advertise No. 17 (2007, 19th century caps), American Advertise 018 and 019 (2008), American Advertise Square Series (2007), American Advertise 004 (2010), American Advertise 005 (2010), American Advertise 006 (2010, alphadings), American Advertise 007 (2010, ornamental caps).
• Ornaments, fleurons: Floreale Two (2012), Neoclassic Fleurons Free (2011), Calligraphic Frames Soft (2011, +Two), Jugendstil Flowers Free (2011), Easy Ornaments (2011), Blasons (2011), Armorial (2011), Monograms Soft (2010, with Iza W), Easy Tiles (2010), Free Tiles (2010), Rough Fleurons Two (2010), Vegetable Breath (2010), Corn Pop Plus (2010), Mortised Fleurons (2010), Mortised Ornaments (2011), Golden Times (2010), Stahlhelme und Kronen (2010), Rough Fleurons (2006), Nouveau Never Dies (2009, ornaments), GeodecBruceOrnamented6 (2006, after a sample from the Bruce Type Foundry), Grave Ornamental (2006), BlackOrnaments (2008), Hera Hedelix (2009, ornamental tiles), Mortised Ornaments (2009), Soft Fleurons (2007), Half Flower (2007), Frames 1 (2007, by Iza W), Flower Essences, Micro Fleurons (2009), Naturella (2009, leaf and grape dingbats by Iza W), Black Fleurons (2010), Easy Fleurons Two (2011), Intellecta Borders (2008, by Iza W), Intellecta Style (2007, borders).
• Fonts made before 2007: Benjamin Franklin (2007), Geodec Petras Enhanced (2006), Deutsche Poster (2006), FatFontGrotesk (2006), Orchis (2006, an art deco family by Iza W), Fantis (2006), Frompac (2006, with Iza W), Geodec Fog (2006), Intellecta Modern (2006), Intellecta Modern 2 (2006), Intellecta Romana Humanistica (2006), Advantage (2006, together with Iza W), Biza (2006, together with Iza W), Elegancy (2006, together with Iza W), Estiliza (2006, a sans family together with Iza W), Experitypo 4, Stairway to Heaven, Copperplate PW, Dings PW, Roger Dean, Gliphs PW, Luxeuil, Watchtower Bible 1965, Gabinete Portugues (11 fonts), Elara (2009), Xilografuras (dingbats), Beta, Alta, Paleolitica Nacional, Shakespeare Studs, Copperplate collection (5 fonts), Wine, Ampersamp, James Poem, Leal Conselheiro, Haeckel Enygma, Iza B, Of, Lementa (2006, ornate family), Pirates (dingbats), Wire Clip (2009), Divina Proportione (2009, dingbats), Tharagaverung (2007), Correo (2009, a nice manly bold face), Titivilus (2007, Roman lettering), Pirates De Luxe (2007, dingbats), Geodec Minuskel (2006), Geodec Spyral (2006), Copperplate Decorative (2006), Feosa (2006), Francesco Decorative (2006, Iza W), Geodec Petras Enhanced (2006), Ibarra Flourished (2006), Intellecta Decorative 017 (2006), Intellecta Decorative 018 (2006), Intellecta Slab Bold (2006), Kansas Decorative (2006), Pingente (2006), Sixties Living (2006), Caractere Doublet (2007), DeutschePosterSteinschrift (2007; by Iza W), GP Casual Script (2007), Colonia Portuguesa (2007), Contouration (2007), Deco Experiment 3 (2007), Floresco (2007), Flower Jars (2007, by Iza W---a very nice idea), Frutisis (2007), Intellecta Monograms (2007: 19 monogram fonts by Paulo W), Peloponeso (2007, by Iza W), Porcupine (2007, by Iza W), Southern Flight (2007, by Iza W---condensed), TTF TTTOEF 4 (2007, by Iza W---dingbats), GeodecBruceFlourished, HostetlerNormande, Victorian Ultra Parphernalia (2007), Angels (2007), Mondrongo (2007), Oorlog (2007).
• Fonts in 2008: Das Riese (3d engraved caps, +Shadow), Economica (sans, T26), Antiqua Double 12, Bad Baltimore (+Beveled, +Typewriter), Calligraphia Latina (2008-2009, in weights called Soft2, Dense, 3, Mixed, Square Edition, Free), Fry's Alphabet, Grissom (bug dingbats, by Iza W), Latinish (by Iza W), Lettering Deco (by Iza W), Litho Romana Inland, Quadratta Serif (a slab serif by Fernando Diaz), TTF TATTOEF 7 (by Iza W).
• Fonts made in 2009: Eingraviert (engraved; scans: i, ii, iii), Eingraviert Beveled (2011), Greko Roman Oldstyle, Ortodoxa do oriente, Sans Square, Speedball (by Iza W, Victorian style), Speedball Western Letters (after Ross F. George's lettering), Elara (2009), Intellecta Roman Tall, Force Brute & Ignorance, Sunamy Caps, Starret, The Pilgrim (alphadings), Renaisperian (alphadings), Real Caps Two, Mateus Bold (4 bold styles), Intellecta Crafts (arts and crafts family), Bruce 1490, Bradley Dingies (five dingbat faces, after William H. Bradley), Allerlei Zierat Renaissance, Grave Plus, the grungy Monkey series (Victorian Monkey, Monkey Poesy, Monkey Messed Gutenberg Caps, Monkey Was Here, Monkey Insinuation, Monkey In The Middle Ages), Montezuma (dingbats), Grotesque and Arabesque, Calhambeque (old car dingbats), Eiger (2009, a 3d sketched headline face).
• Faces made in 2010: Polen, Pencraft (capitals were inspired in Swagger Capitals, an original design from Carl Stephen Junge, at Barnhart Brothers & Spindler; lowercase based Pencraft Specials, an ornamental variation of the Pencraft Oldstyle series, as displayed in the BBS catalog from 1922), Salamemingoe (children's hand), BarberPoles, Beware the neighbors (scary), BlackInitialText, CaligrafiaDivina, CornPop, CowboyHippie Pro, Grotesca3-D, Nardis, Senzacuore, Speedball Metropolitan Poster (2010, after a design by Ross F. George), TagWood, Tosca, TypographyTribute, Zooland, Bubbleboddy-Fat, bubbleboddylight-Light, Pretoria Gross (a Victorian family done with Iza W), Wood Font Five, Wood Font Four, Herr Foch (art nouveau), Rebimboca, Octagon French (a 3d beveled face due to George Nesbitt, 1838), Picuxuxo (retro futuristic, comic book style), Large Old English Riband, Ornamental Riband, Kidings (Dutch dingbats), Hostil (originally done in 2007: a headline family; followed by Hostil Shadow Two (free, 2012) and Hostil Gradient (free, 2012)), Grotesca, Heptagon French, Antiquariaat (condensed), Cortinado, Sanoxio (3d headline face), Violentia (grunge), Swirlies (spiral dings).
• Faces from 2011: Dia de los Muertos (fantastic skeletal masks), Inland Becker, Rasgos Escritura Nuevos, Jaggard Two, Naive Ornaments Black, Augustus (+Beveled: roman letters), Sayonara (oriental simulation face; the Beveled style is free), Trash Barusa (inline ornamental face), Free Ribbons, Black Ornaments Three, Calligraphia Latina Soft 5, Heraldic Devices Premium, Ornate Blackboards, Benjamin Franklin Beveled, Baltimore Typewriter Beveled, Bernardo Beveled, Van den Velde Script (a free interpretation of the work of the famous master penman Jan van den Velde, found in the Spieghel der schrijfkonste, in den welcken ghesien worden veelderhande gheschrifften met hare fondementen ende onderrichtinghe (Haarlen, 1605)), Indenture English Penmanship, Beware The Neighboors Shadow (texture face), White Free (shadow face), Delamotte Large Relief Beveled.
• Typefaces made in 2012: Wood Stevens (free). Prismatica (free), Cristlid (free prismatic face), Zed Leppelin (free), Neo Bulletin Outline (free), Victorian Free Ornaments, Spanish Army Shields.

Iza Wilma Lima Peixoto

Iza W is a Brazilian type designer who works with Paulo W at intellecta Design. Klingspor link. She created Kocham (2008, an art deco geometric face with dots centered in all letters), Orchis (2006, Intellecta Design), an art deco famliy in the style of Broadway. Other fonts, done with Paulo W at Intellecta Design in 2006: Advantage, Biza, Elegancy, Estiliza, Frompac. She designed DeutschePosterSteinschrift, Alta (5 styles), Apolo Decorative (Victorian era caps), Ariana, Black, Cresciesco (roman times lettering), Drianh (late 19th century styles), Easy Callig, Evangeliaire Uncial, Geodec N9 (high contrast sans family), Glaciana (decorative caps), Grid, Half Flower 2, Laureatus (Lombardic), Malvinna, Paola Decorative (caps), Passo Borgo (the ultimate spiky dungeon family), Schneider Kontrast (a 15-style art deco and ornamental family based on the work of F.H. Ernst Schneidler), and Questy (semi-slab serif) in 2007.

Productions in 2008: Basilissa (flowery caps), Calligraphia Latina Soft, Chyrllene (curly Victorian family), Clea (caps), Fridha (undrerstated and 3d calligraphy), Hostetler Kapitalen 2, Litho Romana Inland (a caps family), Ogden (calligraphic), Olivetti Typewriter (5 styles), Syl (frilly Victorian caps), Tissot (2008, fine caps), Triball (headline blackletter family), TTF TATTOEF 8 (tattoo dings). MyFonts says The mysteriously-named Iza W shares most of the development activities at Intellecta Design with Paulo W. She specializes in revivals of historic advertising types, specifically metal and wood display types of the Americas, from the early 19th to mid 20th century. and lists these fonts at the end of 2008 as having been designed by her: Advantage, Agua, Alta, AltDeutsch, Anatomy, Antiqua Shaded, Apolo Decorative, Ariana, Basilissa, Biza, Black, Boliche, Bruce Borders, Bruce Flourished, Bruce Hairline, Bruce Miscelania, Bruce Ornament, Cadels, Calligraphia Latina Soft, Catania, Centennial Script Fancy, Chancelaresca Spanola, Chyrllene, Clea, Cleo (Lombardic ornamental caps), Cresciesco, Deco Experiment 2, Deco Experiment 3, Deco Experiment 4, Deco Experiment 5, Deco Experiment 6 (2007), Deco Experiment 7, Deutsche Poster Steinschrift, Donald, Drianh, Easy Callig, Egipcia, Elara (2009), Elegancy, Engel, Estiliza, Evangeliaire Uncial, Faroeste, Feosa, Figgins Brute, Fin Fraktur, Flower Essences, Flower Jars, Fofucha, Frames 1, Francesco Decorative, Fridha, Frompac, Fry's Alphabet, Furniet Roman, Gans Animals, Gans Carmen Adornada, Gans Cornucopia, Gans Gotico Globo, Gans Italiana, Gans Royality, Gans Sport Club, Gans Titania, Gans Titular Adornada, Gans Transportation, Gans Vessels Fishes, Geodec Bruce Ornamented (2006, a tribute to George Bruce), Geodec Minuskel, Geodec N9, Geodec Petras Enhanced, Glaciana, Gloo Biloo (2010, spooky alphading face), Gothic Handtooled Bastarda, Gotische, Gotische Frame, Gottar (blackletter), Gradl Initialen, Grid, Grissom, Grolier (caps), Grolier Beveled (2011, free at Dafont), Half Flower, Hannover, Hostetler Kapitalen, Imperio Romano (2009, roman heads), Intellecta Bodoned (+Two, +Trash), Intellecta Borders, Intellecta Crowns (royal crowns), Intellecta Grotesca Compacta, Intellecta Slab Bold, Intellecta Square, Intellecta Typewriter, Intellecta Typewriter 2, Japonesa (2010, oriental simulation), Julisa Script, Kocham, Latinish, Laureatus, Lettering Deco (2008, art deco, +Shadow), Litho Romana Inland, Littler Serifada, Magro, Majestade, Malvinna, Manuscript XIV Century, Merona, Missal, Monograms Soft (2010, with Paulo W), Naturella (2009, leaf and grape dingbats), Neretta (2008, +Italic), Numbers, Ogden, Olivetti Typewriter, Orchis, Palermo, Paola Decorative, Peloponeso, Porcupine, Questy, Remington Elite Typewriter, Samuello, Schneider Kontrast, Schneidler Zierbuchstablen, Schwandner Versalia (2010, ornamental caps based on an alphabet by Austrian penman Johann Georg von Schwandner), Schwandner Black Fleurons (2010), Schwandner Ornaments (2010), Selena, Sinfonia, Southern Flight, Speedball, Standard Typewriter, Suciellid, Sunamy (oriental simulation, after lettering by Ross F. George), Surrey (2008), Syl, Tissot, Tondella, Triball, TTF TATTOEF 4, TTF TATTOEF 6, TTF TATTOEF 7, TTF TATTOEF 8, Tuska, Underwood Typewriter (+Underscore), Uthan, Versatile Initials, Victorian Exotical Capitals, Warp, Woodball, Yanna, Zooth.

From 2009: Calligraphia Latina Soft3, Cantate (+Beveled), Remington Weather (old typewriter), Xyla (caps), Polen, Arrius (calligraphic), Catilina, Pentagraph (upright connected script), Renania (calligraphic), Renania Double Line (free), Samantha (caps), Silius Engraved (caps), Stencil Intellecta (+Trash), Tatooyn, Urszula (caps), Victorio (caps), Elfort (formal calligraphy after Poppl Exquisite, a typeface by Friedrich Poppl), Pretoria Gross (2009), Holy Church (2009, blackletter), Holy Church Fleurons (2009), Single Silhouettes (2009).

Typefaces done in 2010: Penabico (a calligraphic script; with Paulo W), Baltimore Typewriter (a great typewriter family, with a black-on-white typewriter keys style added), Izouda (an art deco Broadway-style beauty), Bernardo (an italic family, with swash initials thrown in, named after Lucian Bernhard), Netuno, Supermarket (shop signage family), Bruce Influence (interpretation of Great Primer Ornamented No. 30, from the Bruce's TypeFoundry 1869 catalog), Pretoria Gross (a Victorian family done with Paulo W), Reliant (2010, with Dmitrij Greshnev: a free interpretation of Bernhard Schönschrift (Lucian Bernhard) and Liberty, which was designed by W.T. Sniffin for ATF in 1927, following the original designs by Lucian Bernhard), Reliant Limited (2012, free version).

Gostosinhos (2010) are hilarious faces put together in a dingbat font. Centennial Onaments (2010) was done with Paulo W. Calligraphic Birds is pure penmanship.

Fonts done in 2011: Ambrose Bierce Daned Font (ornamental caps), Menina Carinhosa (floriated caps), Menina Formosa (floriated caps), Menina Espinhosa (2011), Menina Graciosa Ornaments (2011, +Two), Menina Poderosa Ornaments (2011), Azalleia (floriated caps), Azalleia Ornaments, Naoko (a fantastic oriental simulation face), Bestiario (calligraphic penmanship dingbats based on the work of English writing master John Seddon, 1644-1700), Seddon Penmans Paradise Capitals (elaborate caps along the lines of Bestiario), Dolphus-Mieg Monograms (after a 1901 book by the Dollfus-Mieg company), Imprenta Royal Nonpareil, Dia de los muertos (2011), Naive Ornaments (2011), Eingraviert Dutch Capitals (2011).

Creations in 2012: Soft Ornaments (+Two, +Three, +Four, +Five), Soft Garden (ornaments), The Black Shapes, Sabor Words, Sabor Rasgos Escritura (upright connected script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

James Vipond

Creator of Vipondoctic (2008), an octagonal beauty, with the help of FontStruct. Other creations at FontStruct in 2008: vipond_angular, vipond_chubby, Fast Money, Vipond Octic, Lampoon, Fast Money (gridded face), Unity Titling (art deco), Vipond Angular (octagonal), Ringling (Victorian circus font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jean Joveneaux

Author of La lettre dans la peinture et la publicité (1957, Editions Charles Massin, Paris: see also here and here). His Futura Stencil-like Le Pochoir (plate 40) was digitally remade by Toto as Le Pochoir (2011), and also by Jan Gerner as Pochoir (2006). Author also of La lettre dans le décor. An art deco face from that book was digitally revived by Toto and Dick Pape in 2011 under the name La lettre dans le décor. Free download here.

The alphabets of La lettre dans la peinture et la publicité (1957) include many styles, from art deco to blackletter, Victorian and retro. Joveneaux gave them names, so I will list them in alphabetical order: 1erEmpire, AnDeGrace1320, Antiquites, Aquarium, ArtsGraphiques, BalDeNuit, Bar, BeauxArts, Cafe, CompositionDecorative, Constellation, CoursDeStenotypie, DerniereHeure, EclairageFluorescent, Editorial, ElectroStatique, EnExclusivite, Exposition, Illustration, InitiationSportive, JeuDeDominos, LaGrandeParade, LePochoir, LettresOrnees, Massif, Meubles, ModeDEte1950, Motos, Nouvelle, Ordonnance, OrpheeAuxEnfers, PrestigeDeLaSoie, Promotion52, RealisationsGraphiques, RobesDEte, SalonMai1953, Samedi23Mai1953, TissusTousColoris, TouteUneGammeDeLaines, ZoneInterdite. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeff Levine: Additional typefaces
[Jeff Levine]

This is a list of fonts by Jeff Levine not categorized anywhere else on my pages.

• A: Abi Nouveau JNL (2010, art nouveau caps face), Adelanto JNL (2009), Adhesive Letters JNL (2011), Aisle Seats JNL (2006, based on letters cut by the Redikut Letter Company of Hawthorne, CA), Album Cover JNL (2008), Alleway JNL (2012, a condensed sans), Allograph JNL (2007), Alphacal JNL (2008, outlined, and like Juneway JNL, based on water-applied decals once made by the Duro Decal Company (now Duro Art Industries) of Chicago), Alton JNL (2010: a bold display sans), Amateur Printer JNL (2007, grunge), Ampersorts JNL (2011: ampersands), And So Forth JNL (2011), Anecdote JNL (2009), Arch Creek JNL (2010, an all caps revival of Beton), Ardball (2006), Arte Critique JNL (2009), Artist Colony JNL (2009), Art Student JNL (2010), Astrospy JNL (2008: techno), Awkward Gothic JNL (2008).
• B: Backpage Article JNL (2010), Bal Harbour JNL (2008), Balcony Seats JNL (2007, narrow retro sans), Bayview JNL (2008, based on Inland Type Foundry's Studley), Bike Decals JNL (2008), Billing and Shipping JNL (2010), Bingo Player JNL (2010), Birch Beer JNL (2008), Bloktor Mosaik JNL (2007), Blue Parrot (2006), Box Lunch JNL, Broadletter JNL (2009), Brogado (2006), Brushmark JNL (2011), Burger Joint (2006), Burger Royale JNL (2007).
• C: Calendar Blocks JNL (2009), Calling Card JNL (2010), Callouts JNL (2011, in Circle and Square styles; white letters on black background), Canby (2006, a squarish caps face), Cast Shadow JNL (2010), Casual Lunch JNL (2009), Casual Friday JNL (2008, roman lettering), Catch Words JNL (2009), Channel Tuning JNL (1999), Channel Surfing JNL (2010), Charlies Bar BQ JNL (2008, heavy slab serif), Chive Turkey JNL (2007), Classroom JNL (2009), Cling Vinyl JNL (2009), Coal Train (2004), Coldfield JNL (2008), Commentary JNL (2010, almost typewriter type---easy on the eye), Corkboard JNL (2010: a rounded all caps family), Cornfield JNL (2008), Crown Heights JNL (2007, slab serif caps), Cyberglass (2010, techno).
• D: Dance Hall JNL (2011), Dangits JNL (2009), Decal (2006), Decorative Panels JNL (2009), Deerfield JNL (2006, Bank Gothic style), Desk Jockey JNL (2008), Deskplate JNL (2011), Detention JNL (2007, handprinted), Diamond Jim (2010), Disclaimer JNL (2010, condensed thin headline face), Display Inline JNL (2009), Displayced (2006, LED font), Do It Yourself JNL (2008), Doo Wop Initials JNL (2007), Doowop (2006), Dormitory Decals JNL (2009), Double Take JNL (2008), Duonor JNL (2010).
• E: Edessa JNL (2009: chiseled stone look, faux Greek), Editorial Comment JNL (2009, grotesk caps-only headline face), Edits and Credits JNL (2008), Elsinor (2006), Endless Journey JNL (2009), Entitled JNL (2007, squarish as in Bank Gothic), Evening Edition JNL (2009), Expressions (smilies).
• F: Factual JNL (2010,headline face), Fairgrounds (2006), Farragut JNL (2008, hairline geometric), Feltboard JNL (2008), Festival Nights (fancy letters), File Folder JNL (2010, Bank Gothic style family), Film Crew JNL (2009), Fincastle JNL (2011, all caps sans titling face), Flagstaff JNL (2010), Flatbush Beanery (2006), Flipboard JNL (2011), Flivver (2006, a slab-serif display font), Floor Tiles JNL (2009), Florida (2006, retro), Food Vendor JNL (2011), Fordham JNL (2011, all caps slab serif), Frankly Plain JNL and Franky Ornate JNL (2010, all caps faces after Franklin Gothic), French Art Initials JNL (2009, art nouveau), French Serif Moderne JNL (2009), Freunlaven JNL (2006, psychedelic), Fun and Games (2011, a casual retro face redrawn from the lettering found on the cover of a 1935 Speedball Lettering Pen book).
• G: Genesee JNL (2010), Gilbert JNL (2011, after Eric Gill's sans), Groovy 3D Caps JNL, Groovy Happening JNL (2005, psychedelic, in the style of Action Is), Groovy Summer (2006, a casual sans), GummedAlphabet JNL (2011), Gummed Letters JNL (2010).
• H: Halavah Twist JNL (2007; see also its extension Zydeco JNL in 2009), Hallandale (2006), Handmade Dropshadow JNL (2010), Handmade Gothic JNL (2011, inspired by lettering samples in a 1941 Speedball Lettering Pen instructional booklet), Handmade Roman JNL (2011), Hand Stamped JNL (2006, rubber stamp look), Hash and Beans JNL (2007), Hectonoid JL (2008), Highbrow Cafetorium JNL (2009), Home Room JNL (2009), Horse Puckey JNL (2008), Hoxie JNL (2008).
• I-J: Inkpad Letters JNL (2011), Inline Lettering JNL (2011, inspired by the opening title of a classic 1940s horror film, The Invisible Man's Revenge), Interoffice Memo (2011), Jive Jump (2006), Jobseeker JNL (2011: handprinted), Juneway (2006, modeled after a set of water-applied decals made by the Duro Decal Company of Chicago).
• K-L: Key Largo JNL (2011, all caps slab serif), Kiddie Blokz JNL (2010), Lasting Impression JNL (2008), Lefferts (2006, squarish display face), Les Folies JNL (2009, Victorian), Linem Up (2010), Lobby Card JNL (2010), Longbranch Initials (2006, for decorative monograms), Loose Leaf JNL (2010), Love Notes JNL (2011: alphadings), Luminum JNL (2007).
• M: Mailbox Letters JNL (2008) Mayville JNL (2009), Meal Ticket JNL (2008, squarish), Merchandiser JNL (2010), Millport (2006, squarish display face), Misdirection JNL (2009), Mixed Messages JNL (2007, ransom note), Mocombo JNL (2010, an African look face that is a slightly modified version of one of the numerous alphabets created by the late Alf R. Becker for Signs of the Times Magazine during the period of the 1930s through the 1950s), Monthly Newsletter JNL (2011), Morningstar JNL (2012, named after Jeff's friend, Estella Dawn Roberts of Stella Roberts Fonts), Movieland JNL (2008), Movie Night JNL (2011).
• N: Naroid Initials JNL (2010, one of the most ultra-compressed sets of initials available in digital type), National Spirit JNL (2009), Newsbreak JNL (2008), Newshawk JNL (2007, a condensed sans), Newsprint JNL (2011), Nightcap JNL (2011), Nighthawk JNL (2009, a retro headline sans), Now Playing JNL (2010).
• O: Oblogram JNL (2008, techno), Occidental Tourist JNL (2009), Odditype JNL (2006, computer simulation), Off The Wall JNL (2008).
• P-Q: Paint Store JNL (2006), Parkitechture (2006), Part and Parcel JNL (2009), Patriotica JNL (2011, American flag face), Pavement JNL (2010, based on the extra-condensed lettering used on roadway information signs as revised by the U.S. Government in 2000), Pendraw Roman (2006), Penmanshift JNL (2006, ronde style), Personal Note JNL (2011), Picz JNL (2009), Pillow Puff JNL (2008, fluffy and cloud-like lettering), Pistol Twelve JNL (2008), Pitkin JNL (2006, a hand-lettered sans), Plastic Display JNL (2010, sketched from photo examples in an old sales promotion sheet for the Movitex Do-It-Yourself Plastic Sign Kit by Pryor Marking Products of Chicago), Plastic Template JNL (2011), Pleasantville JNL (2012, a condensed slab serif), Pocket Initials JNL (2008), Podunk JNL (2007), Postal JNL (2009, white on black, as on stamps), Prehysteric JNL (2010), Presentation JNL (2011, a slabby family), Pricing Labels JNL (2010), Printed Letters (2006, made from stamped impressions made by a 1940s childrens sign making set), Printing Set JNL (2006, based on a rubber stamp alphabet), Printing Sorts JNL (2009), Prismatiq JNL (2009, shadow face), Proofreader JNL (2011, a rounded slab serif face), Public Notice JNL (2009), Public Transportation JNL (2008), Public Works JNL (2007: emulates the hand-cut lettering silk screened onto metal), Publication JNL (2010, a revival of DeVinne, 1890), Quorfid JNL (2010).
• R: Record Jacket JNL, Rendering (2011, architectural draftman's lettering), Retail Merchant (2006), Retro Resort JNL (2011), Reverberation JNL (2011, horizontally striped face), Reverse Calendar Blocks JNL (2011), Rockaway JNL (2006, titling sans), Roma Initial Caps JNL (2009), Roundpoint Pen JNL (2011, based on instructional lettering found in an old Speedball Pen textbook), Roughshod (2006), Rural Route JNL (2010).
• S: Same Old English JNL (2010, blackletter), Sandcastle JNL (2011), Sans Poster Bold + 3D, Screentext JNL (2010, pixel), Second Impression JNL (2008), Sennetarium JNL (2008, after lettering in a Charlie Chaplin movie), Sentzoff Coupon (2006, stitched), Serenade JNL (2010, art nouveau sans), Sew What JNL (2010, stitching face), Shelf Numbers JNL (2008), Shicken Zoop JNL (2008, Hebrew), Sign and Poster JNL (2009, die-cut letters), Shopkeeper JNL (2010, after a a vintage rubber stamp sign and chart printing set), Snack Shop JNL (2007, the retro diner look in a bold outline face), Socialite JNL (2009), SplintersJL (2004), Sport Shaded JNL (2009), Spring Fashion JNL (2010), Spur Handlettered JNL (2008), Squarity JNL (2008), Stamp of Approval JNL (2007), Starlight Sans, Stellator JNL (2006, a high-tech modular font), Store Tags JNL (2011), Sunlight JNL, Supporting Cast JNL (2011).
• T: Tallahassee Chassis JNL (2007, modeled from a toy rubber stamp set imported from Japan), Tamiami JNL (2009, Victorian, known as "Cuba"), Technerd JNL (2011, a thin technical/mechanical face), Terror JNL, That Stuff JNL (2009), Theatrics JNL (2009, 3d face), Thin Mint JNL (2011), Three Day Pass JNL (2009), Tiler JNL (2012, a gridded face), Title Block Sans JNL (2011, an avant-garde titling face), Too Much Information JNL (2007), Top Billing JNL (2008, dot matrix), Toucan Tango JNL (2007, multiline face), Tough Guy (2006, shaded titling face), Tough Stuff JNL (2008), Toyprint JNL (2009, grunge), Trade Journal JNL (2010), Trade Printer JNL (2007, Victorian-era sans emulation), Transactive JNL (2007, dot matrix), Tribal Council JNL (2011, jungle lettering), Trilium JNL (2010, triline face), Twelve Oaks (2006), Two Reeler JNL (2006; see also its follow-up typeface Positive Vibe JNL, 2007, both modeled after title cards of an early Charlie Chaplin movie), Type Catalog (2011, bilined all caps face), Typesetter JNL (2011).
• U-V: Utica JNL (2010, squarish all caps face), Vehicle JNL (2010, a condensed block font as for car plates), Vendor JNL (2010, Victorian era ribbon face), Vertical Roundpoint JNL (2011, found in a 1941 edition of the Speedball Lettering Pen instruction book and re-drawn digitally by Jeff Levine), Vintage Designs JNL (2009, dingbat which has some fists).
• W: Wavely (2010), Weeneez JNL (2011, wiener-shaped glyhs), Welcome Home JNL (2009), Werble JNL (2010), Whoosh JNL (2007), Willoughby JNL (2006, based on 1950s toothpaste lettering), Wire Mesh JNL (2009), Work Force JNL (2011), Wynwood JNL (2009).
• X-Y: Yargo JNL (2009, handprinted), Yayazout JNL (2008, fun titling face), Yorso Square JNL (2007).
• Z: Zera JNL (2007, intersecting rings), Zodor JNL (2010), Zydeco JNL (2009).

John F. Cumming

Massachusetts-based punchcutter, b. 1852, Harrisville, PA.

• Typefaces at the Boston Type Foundry: Albino (1882), Autograph Script (1884), Bank Note Roman and Italic (1870), Banner (< 1883), Binner Gothic (< 1898), Century (1884), Cheque (1882), Clark Script (1884), Copley (1886), Dresden (1882), Duerer (1889), Facade (1892), Kismet (1879), London (< 1885), Lubeck (1884), Magnolia Script (1884), Morris, Munich (1882), Record (1881), Rubens (1884), Skinner Script (1885), Soudan (1884), Syrian, Weimar (1886).
• Typefaces at the Dickinson Type Foundry (also in Boston): Algonquin and Algonquin Ornamented (1888), Caxton Title, Colonial (1887), Elandkay (1892), Florentine Old Script (1884), French Cursive, Globe. Gothic Script (1891), Gothic Slope, Grady (< 1891), Howland (1892), Jagged Series (1881), Karnac (1884, Victorian), Masonic Text (1890), Mother Hubbard (1885), Outing Series (1888), Quaint (1888), Renaissant (1880), Satanick (1897), Skjald (1890), Stenograf (1890), Vertical Script (1897), Virile (1890), Visible Speech.
• Typefaces at the Hansen Type Foundry: Viking Old Style No. 3 (1899).

John Moore

Born in 1951, John Moore is a Venezuelan type designer. He studied graphic design in the Institute of graphic design Neumann from 1972 until 1976. In 1980 he took a workshop with Milton Glaser and since 1983 he has worked as an art director and creative director in many advertising agencies. He designs type since 1976. His typefaces Gordis (a fattish comic book family) and Tepuy won awards at Tipos Latinos 2008 in the non-text and experimental typeface categories, respectively. At Tipos Latinos 2010, he won twice in the display category, for Victorina and Radio Time. MyFonts link. Behance link. Poster.

His typefaces: VE Inconexa (2006, outline architectural face), VE Makiritare (2006, Aztec-style double script), VE Moho (2006), VE Palaima (2006, futuristic, Amazonian), Radio Time (fifties style script, with Alejandro Paul at Sudtipos), Fruta (stencil, influenced by Glaser?), Glaser Stencil Round, Gothike (sharp-edges), Aqua (ultra round), Club, Caracas (sans), Factor (hookish), Space Lab (futuristic family), Robin (headline), Victorina (multiline Victorian poster typeface which won an award at Tipos Latinos 2010), Victorina Black Shadow (2011), Waterman (2010, a flowing undulating script family), Spacelab (2010, futuristic) and RobinBienalII (2005). Sudtipos sells these fonts of his via MyFonts: Makiritare (bilined, based on woven baskets), Palaima (experimental, runic), Precolombino (petroglyphs), Tepuy (rounded version of Makiritare), Roadline (2009, fifties diner font), Sacred Geo (2011, a geometric dingbat font that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2012), DeCoro (2011, art deco family), Sacred Geo Tiling (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

John Studden

Sign artist in Burbank, CA who runs "L.A. Signs and Graphics" on E. Verdugo Avenue there. MyFonts link. All his fonts are commercial, and can be bought from Letterhead Fonts (LHF). He specializes in signage and retro faces. Perhaps his best-selling face is Classic Caps (2002). Other faces: Casablanca (2003), LHF Ephemera (2002, calligraphic), LHF Ballpark Script (2001, connected signage script), Goldsmith (2003), New Trajan (2002, based on Roman lettering found on buildings), Fairground, Havana, Hertford, Bulldog, Aristocrat (2002, inspired by a 1930s ad for swallow motorcycles), Big Top (2002, a circus headline font), Bulldog, Burbank (modeled after fire truck lettering), Classic Roman, Light Face Roman (2003), Fairground, Havana, Hertford, Corrie (2004, a roman titling face), The Bat (2004, inspired by lettering of Al Imelli), Pullman Train (2003), Labelle (2003, inspired by a Peace Time cigar label), Stetson (2004, an elegant all-caps display face), Brough Superior (2004), Classic Caps (2006, for Western style signs), Diploma (2006), Watrin (2006), Hamilton Ornate (2006, late 19th century ornamental style), Mackinlay (2006), Hamilton Nailhead (2006), Palms Bold (2006, wood type), Square Block (2006), Bank Note (2006, all-caps pair of faces that includes an outline), Gilmore (2006, wood type), Booth (2006, an artsy modern-serifed headline face), LHF Citizen (2007), LHF Prince (2007), LHF Vienna (2007), LHF Victoria (2007, art deco), LHF Quaker Regular (2007, elegant and artsy), LHF Prince (2007, inspired by the old "Farmer's Deposit National Bank" stock certificates), LHF Gilmore (2007), LHF Jumbo (2007, heavy Egyptian), LHF Conservatory (2008, a tall serif face), LHF Iron Horse (2008) and Shopfront (2002). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Joseph Bertram Jowitt

Author of Modern Show Card Writing (1922, National Drug Clerk). One Victorian alphabet served as a model for Nick Curtis's Shangri-La NF (2000, 2008). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Julius Herriet Sr

Born in 1818 in Braunschweig, Germany. He emigrated to the United States where he worked as a type designer for various foundries in New York. His work includes these typefaces:

• Bruce Type Foundry: Black (Extended, Extra Condensed, Slope, Italian), Circular Italic, German Text 580, Harrington, Italian Antique, Italian Black Ornamented (1872), Ornamented No. 1025, Bruce's Ornamented no. 1048 (faux Chinese), Ornamented No. 1060 (1878), Ornamented No. 1515 (1867), Ornamented No. 1522 (1871), Ornamented No. 1526 (1871), Ornamented No. 1528 (1873), Ornamented No. 1532 (1875), Ornamented No. 1533 (1873), Ornamented No. 1542 (1876), Ornamented No. 1543 (1876), Ornamented No. 1545 (1876), Ornamented No. 1549 (1868), Ornamented No. 1551 (1878), Ray Shaded Black, Rustic 1048, Soutache (1873, a Tuscan face revived by Font Mesa as Main Street), St. Clair (1875), Stephen Ornate (1877).
• Conner Type Foundry: Cosmopolitan, Curved Antique, Latin Ornate (+Shaded), Mayflower, Nero, Octagon (1885, +Shaded, 1883), Old Style Title, Ornamented Text (+Shaded), Pilgrim, Roman Shaded, Text (+Italic).
• Johnson Type Foundry: Gothic Tuscan, Modern Text (+Open), National (1856), Recherche.

Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Julius Klinkhardt Schriftgiesserei
[Julius Klinkhardt]

Julius Klinkhardt was a type designer who designed faces such as the blackletter font Neue Schwabacher (1922, Berthold). He ran the Julius Klinkhardt Schriftgiesserei in Leipzig in the late 19th century. It was taken over by Berthold in 1920. Their typefaces include Flora Ornamente (1906), Lithographia (1895), Secessions Schriften (1906), Baldur (1903, art nouveau), Britania-Gotisch (1900, also known as Altgotish, and as Kloster Gotisch, and as Mammut Gotisch), Breitkopf Fraktur (just like versions of this face at C.F. Rühl (1912), Stempel (1912) and Berthold (1919)), Rosen Zierat (ca. 1910), Negro (1908), Elvira (1908), Cornelia Einfassung (1908), Hubertus Schmuck (1909), Filigran Ornamente (1910), Doris Ornamente (1917), Stigma Ornamente (1911), Bastard gross (a Kanzlei face with mager and fett versions), Werkschrift Germanisch (ca. 1880), Tango-Cursiv (1914), and Bismarck-Gotisch gross, all digitally revived by Gerhard Helzel. His TipTop (ca. 1900) was digitized under the same name by Petra Heidorn (2004). Tip Top Pro (2008, URW++) is a commercial revival of the same face by Ralph M. Unger.

On EBay, they were selling the specimen book: See here. Their main specimen books are Gesamt-Probe der Schriftgiesserei Julius Klinkhardt in Leipzig und Wien (1885, 690 pages) and Oktav-Probe II (1890, 452 pages). See the cover of an earlier specimen book.

Some type designers:

• Richard Grimm-Sachsenberg: Grimm-Antiqua und Schmuck (1914), Neue römische Antiqua (1907), Saxonia (1907), magere römische Antiqua (1912).
• Heinz König: Rundine (1913).
• Hermann Delitsch: Ramses (1912, an Antiqua face), Delitsch-Kanzlei (1903), Delitsch Antiqua (1911).
• Julius Nitsche: Unger Fraktur (1910; Wetzig says 1907), Neudeutsche Ornamente (1911), Buchschmuck (1905), Akzidenz-Zierat (1905).
• Remarkable faces: Schmale Runde Grotesk (1885, a forerunner of DIN?).
• Gadso Weiland: Toscana Schriften und Schmuck (1908).

Examples from their catalog from 1890: Fette Universal, Garnitur XII and XIII, Garnitur XIV, Kurrentschrift, Verzierte Merkur Kanzlei, and Neue Cursiv Zierschrift, Antika and Italia Grotesk Versalien, drawing of a boudoir, Enge Egyptienne, Fette Cursiv, Fraktur, Halbfette Fraktur, Holz Schriften (wood type), more wood type, drawing of horses, Moderne Fette Fraktur, monograms, Neue Fette Fraktur and Victoria Gotisch, Neue Fette Fraktur, Neue Schmale Fette Egyptienne, Romanische Gotisch, Rundschrift Polytypen, Schmale Antiqua, Schmale Fraktur, Schmale Halbfette Grotesk, Schwabacher, Silhouette Initialen, Stickmuster Typen, vignetten, more vignetten, Zierschriften, more Zierschriften, Zweifarben-Schriften. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julius Schmohl

In 1891, Julius Schmohl and Ernst Lauschke designed an art nouveau and a Victorian face for BBS. Schmohl was born in Germany, but lived in Chicago for most of his life. In 1895, he and Max Rosenow published an upright script with BBS. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karina Haasz

Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the Victorian typeface Vennezia (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karl Klimsch

Type designer, b. 1867. He created Flinsch-Germanisch (1876, Flinsch), a blackletter face. Dover republished two books by this author: 2,100 Victorian Monograms (1994), and Florid Victorian Ornament (1977). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karley Johnston

Creator of the curly Victorian face that was inspired by the works of Charley Harper, called Anning (2011). Charley Harper (1922-2007) was a Cincinnati-based American Modernist artist. He was best known for his highly stylized wildlife prints, posters and book illustrations. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karolina Lach

Polish / American designer who used FontStruct to create Coney Island Baby (2008: Victorian circus font), Temptation (2008, a crispy serifed face), this Tuscan wood type (2008, done outside FontStruct) and Innocent When You Dream (2008, a dotted lines face).

She wri tes: Karolina Lach is a graphic designer, web designer and typographer residing in New York. She currently works as the Senior Designer for Kiwibox Media, a social network and online magazine for teens. A graduate of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, she has studied under Mike Essl, Emily Oberman, James Craig, Maxim Zhukov and Hannes Famira. Graduate from the type design program at the University of Reading in 2010. She created Sora there in 4 styles, Regular, Italic, Black and Arabic. Karolina tried to give Sora a distinctive Oz Cooper / Frederic Goudy American look. Pompiere (2011, a free font at Google Font Directory, is a low contrast condensed sans serif font with tall ascenders and small x-height, which is based on lettering outside a new York firehouse. Arbutus (2011, a free spiky slab face at Google Web Fonts) is a sturdy medium contrast slab serif cactus skin font.

In 2012, she designed Amarante (art nouveau).

Behance link. Home page in New York City. Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kate Greenaway

English Victorian illustrator and letterer (b. London, 1846, d. 1901), known for her children's books. Sample of her work in her Almanack for 1884. Here is the title pages of The Royal Progress of King Pepito (1889) and The Book of Games. She also drew Kate Greenaway's Alphabet (caps with children in various poses), which was made into a font by Gert Wiescher in 2005. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ketchup n Mustard
[Jaime Van Wart]

Jaime Van Wart is a full-time product and visual designer for IBM's Lotus software group. In her spare time, she obsesses over typography and designs original typefaces and custom lettering work. She created the Victorian faces Restoration and Vodarna in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Keystone Type Foundry

Philadelphia-based foundry, 1888-1917. The history of this short-lived foundry was told by James Eckmann in The Keystone Type Foundry, 1888-1917: a reprint [from] Printing&graphic arts, volume VI, number 1, February 1958 (Lunenburg, Vermont: The Stinehour Press, 1958). Their work appeared in Keystone Type Foundry, 1901 (362 pages), Abridged specimen book, type: nickel-alloy on universal line comprising a price list of types, borders, leads and slugs, brass rule, brass galleys; miscellaneous cuts and general supplies for printers (1906, 636 pages, see also here, here and here), A book of Keystone type faces (2nd ed., Philadelphia, ca. 1920), Catalogue and specimen book. Keystone products, consisting of type, material, furniture, complete line of miscellaneous supplies for printers and publishers, machinery and wood goods (Philadelphia, ca. 1910), See also Keystone Products Catalogue and Specimen Book, Consisting of Type, Material, Furniture, Complete Line of Miscellaneous Supplies for Printers and Publishers, Machinery and Wood Goods (1915).

Typefaces: Admiral, Ben Franklin, Ben Franklin Condensed, Ben Franklin Open, Bulletin, Caslon Adbold, Caslon Adbold Extended, Caslon Adbold Extra Condensed, Caslon Bold, Caslon Bold Condensed, Caslon Bold Extended, Caslon Bold Italic, Caslon Lightface, Caslon Lightface Condensed, Caslon Lightface Italic, Caslon Title Extended, Charcoal, Charter Oak, Compressed Gothic, Condensed Lining Gothic, Crayonette, Elite Typewriter, Gothic Condensed No. 3, Gothic No. 102, Gothic No. 114, Harris Italic, Harris Roman, Herculean Gothic, Italia Condensed (1906), John Alden Decorative Initials (1906), John Hancock, John Hancock Condensed, John Hancock Extended, John Hancock Outline, Keystone Gothic, Laureate (1906: revived in 2012 by Isabel Urbina), Lining Antique [Keystone], New Model Remington Typewriter, Outline, Outline Condensed, Remington, Remington Typewriter, Round Gothic (1884), Skeleton Lining Gothic, Skeleton Lining Gothic No. 19, Smith Premier, Title Gothic, Venezia, Washington Text (1902, blackletter), Washington Text Shaded.

Digital pictures I took from the Specimen Book of Type (1903): Bulletin, Keystone Bikes, Boldface Cellini, Crayonette Open, Keystone Cyclers, Encore, Lining Antique, Lining Gothic, Outing Initials, Remington Typewriter, Remus, Ronde Initials, Salem, Venezia, Victoria Italic, Worcester. Catalog A-C, Catalog C-P, Catalog P-Z.

Digitizations:

• The slab serif John Hancock (ca. 1903) and condensed slab serif John Hancock Condensed (ca. 1917, Lanston Monotype) were digitized as Hancock RR (1994) by Steve Jackaman (Red Rooster).
• The Remington typewriter faces (ca. 1905) were digitized as Secret Service Typewriter RR (2002) by Steve Jackaman (Red Rooster).
• Roman TyresRR (1997) was made by Steve Jackaman (Red Rooster).
• Poor Richard RR is based on a Keystone design from 1919, namely Ben Franklin, Ben Franklin Condensed, Ben Franklin Open (named after Benjamin Franklin's "Poor Richard Almanack"). There is also a free font Poor Richard (1994, Projective Solutions).
• Caslon FB (1992, Font Bureau) comes with this text: Our familiar Caslon Bold headletters were invented around the turn of the twentieth century in the United States and were only loosely based on William Caslons romans. The best of the Caslon Bolds originated at the Keystone Type Foundry of Philadelphia, whose Caslon Bold Condensed appeared about 1905, probably drawn by R.F. Burfeind. Jill Pichotta revised his Bold Condensed&drew the Bold Extra Condensed.
• Gibbs Mason designed the art nouveau face Vanden Houten (1904) at Keystone. This typeface was remade by Dan X. Solo as Dutch Treat at Solotype.
• Emerge BF (2009, John Bomparte) is a flare serif face that was inspired by Admiral, c.1900.
• Old Softy NF (2010, Nick Curtis) is a soft round face based on Round Gothic (1884).

Larry White

Designer at Letterhead Fonts of the Victorian ornamental faces United Cigar and Bill Blake (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lazy Dog Foundry (or: Franklin Type Founders)
[Willie Ford]

St. Paul, MN-based foundry run by Willie Ford. Franklin Type Founders includes a collection of fonts from Lazy Dog Foundry but has also a library of fonts licenced from International Typeface Corporation (ITC) and, with the backing of URW++, from a number of smaller foundries. Some Lazy Dog fonts: Belmondo, Berliner, BigBlack, Boomerang, Bostonia (a gothic font), Chieftain Solid / Inline, Cypress, Durango, Emporium, Glorietta, GrecoDeco Solid / Inline, Harpers, Isadora, Little Louis, Manhattan, Medina, Minneapolis, Mississippi, Neuland Solid / Inline, Nova Bold, Riverboat, Schwere, Shrifteen, Socrates, Tombstone Outline / Solid, Thermo, Uptown, Yitsui. All fonts made in 1992. I have been looking for Willie Ford. The most interesting match is here. Font Factory sells these Franklin Type Founders fonts: Aster, Augustea, Barcelona, Baskerville Hancut, Berliner, Beton, Big Black, Blackboard, ITC Bolt Bold, Boomerang, Bordeaux, Bostonia, Brody, Bullfinch, Busorama, Cabaret, Camellia, Castle, Catherine, Chelmsford, Chieftan, Chisel, Colwell, Cypress, Diskus, Durango, Einhorn, Emporium, Erin Lynn, Fat Face, Flash, Glorietta, Greco, Harpers, Harris, Herald, Honda, Horndon, Ice Age, Isadora, Latin Tall, Lazy Script, Legriffe, Liberty, Lindsay, Little Louis, Madison, Magna, Magnus, Manhattan, Marker, Medina, Minneapolis, Mississippi, Nadall, national Modern, National Oldstyle, Nevision Casual, Nova, Pajamas, Phyllis Script, Piccadilly, Plaza, Primus, Punch, Quentin, Railroad, Recess, Riverboat, Rumpus, Scaffold, Schwere, Schrifteen, Slipstream, Socrates, Sophie, Sterling, Superstar, Synchro, Thermo, Timeless, Times Coop, Titus Light, Tombstone, Uptown, Victorian Script, Vienna, Weifz Rundfchrift, Windsor, Worcester, Yitsui. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lebbadesign (or: Lebbad Design)
[James A. Lebbad]

Lebbadesign (Stockton, NJ) is where James Lebbad (b. 1955, Newark, NJ) publishes his work, mostly logotype and lettering. Jim graduated from Kutztown University in 1977. He is a winner of an award at the TDC2 Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2002, with Globetrotter, a fine handprinted font. Other fonts: Penske, Campbell Soup, Echo, Takhomasak, Lebbad Roman, Ellen, Janelle. MyFonts sells Alie (2008, a rough-edged script), Antman (2008, reto futuristic face), Bunky (2008), Ellen (2008, a display serif face), Kerb (2008, an elliptical sans), Pastina (2008, a Victorian serif), Nicole (2008, a graceful condensed face), Zoomba (2009, a script), Lebbad Script (2011, retro signage face), Juliana Joy (2012, a sharp-edged serif face).

View the typefaces designed by James Lebbad. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Lee Schulz

Boston-based designer of the Type Directors Club 1999 award-winning design Antionette, an "extreme Victorian" face. His Salome also won an award at the same competition. Hrant Papazian on Schulz when he wrote a piece on a CalArts exhibition: "Then there was Lee Schulz with his dedicated craftsmanship and astonishing inspirational range: the hyper-decorative Antoinette; the gloriously organic Salome; the surprising low-res Batterie; the reserved Minister." [Google] [More]  ⦿

Legacy of Defeat

This web site, related to Hydro 74, offers original creations, both free and commercial. They specialize in vintage signage type, display type, the Western look, scary faces, art nouveau, psychedelic and Victorian styles. The catalog as of 2011: Anarchy Script, Aphex Script, Apocalypse, Avante, Black Mail Sect, Black Mamba, Burial Black, Cadaver Ink, Cadaver Script, Calypso, Catalyst, Cortez, Dayton Black, False Idols, Golden Age, Heresy, Hood Black, Hydro Script, Imperial Black, Iron Fist, Kremlin Ink, Kustom Style, La Calavera Catrina, La Santsima Muerte, Le Venom, Lucky's Flash, Martyr Black, Muerte Black, Napalm Vertigo, Nue Black, Nue Goth, Norway Black, Razor Black, Royal Baron, Sacred Black, Sailor Jerry, Salem Witch Hunt, Sentry Black, Spitfire, Skid Row, Thai Black, The Clique, The Thickness, Thunder Script, Tramp Stamp, Tyranny Gothic, Uber Black, Vahalla, Venice Black, Viper Black, War Machine, West Coast Soul, Wolfstien Electro, Working Class Hero, Zombie Allegiance, Zombie Attack, Slash Black, Suture Set, Corpse, Czar, Proclivity, Uber Black Caps. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Letterhead Fonts
[Chuck Davis]

Chuck Davis (Palmdale, CA) is the founder of Letterhead Fonts. LHF was established in 1999. They specialize in sign and logo fonts, taking inspiration from wood type and late 19th century style typefaces. The fonts are sold by MyFonts. Free fonts "Letterhead Tuscan" (handlettering), Quadrex (2006, 3d effect font), and Wal-Mart People (dingbats). 19 USD display fonts: Esoteric (1999), Wall Dog, Double Gild, Convecta, Smalts, Splash, Lisa. His Atkinson collection has a few nice letterings: Heavy Sign Script, Eccentric French, Fancy Roman and Modern 1908 Classic (now called Cafe Nouveau) stand out. A small archive rounds out the site. Mike Stowe designed Old Blackletter in 2001. Ken McTague made the hand-lettered style typeface Boston Truckstyle. Designed by Brian Kniceley in 2000: LHF Henderson Church, LHF Ohnimus Florid, LHF Ohnimus Spiked, LHF Strong Tea House, Strong Caliope, Strong Nouveau.

Fonts made in 2000 by Chuck Davis: LHFActionMovie LHF Bulletin Plug, LHF Classic Block, LHF Condensed French, LHF Convecta (2005, beveled face), LHF Cool Blue, LHF Crouching Tiger, LHF Def Artist, LHF Def Writer, LHF Double Gild, LHF Eccentric French Lt, LHF Esoteric, LHF Heavy French Roman, LHF Heavy Sign Script, LHF Jami (2000), LHF Letterhead Tuscan, LHF Lisa, LHF Modern 1908 Classic, LHF Quantum (2001, techno family), LHF Smalts, LHF Splash,LHF Tuscan Full Block (Western style), LHF Wall Dog, LHF Letterhead Tuscan. Fonts made in 2001 by Chuck Davis: LHF Advertisers Plug ATK, LHF Argentine Solid, LHF Boston Truckstyle, LHF Esoteric New, LHF Grants Antique, LHF Mister Kooky, LHF Mister Spooky, LHF Scriptana (2003, angular calligraphic script).

The following are all by Chuck Davis: LHF Fat Cat (2011, a round informal face influenced by Alf Becker's rounded block letterstyle), LHF Bank Note (2007), Quadrex (2005), Menace (2004, comic book style), Michelle (2004, calligraphic script), LHF Ambrosia (2004, free), Sofia Script (2003), Stanford Script (2003), Sarah Script (2003), Fancy Full Round (2003, a Western face inspired by Al Imelli, ca. 1900), Matthews Thin (2003, tall caps face), New Modern Classic (2003), LHF Birgitta (2003, roman style typeface, inspired by an E.C. Matthews book), LHF Happy Fun Ball (2003, comic book style), CD Esoteric, OldSignFont, Robin, LHFDefWriter, LHFDefArtist, LHF Amarillo (2001, a spurred serif), LHFBeckerMonogramEnglish, LHFBeckerPosterScript, LHFBeckerRoundedBlock, LHFConclaveFLATreg, Cool Blue (2003), LHFConclaveFLATwide, LHFConclaveROUNDreg, LHFConclaveROUNDwide, LHFConclaveSHARPreg, LHFConclaveSHARPwide, LHFCrouchingTiger, LHFCrouchingTigerCONVEX, LHFEquinox, LHF Esoteric3 (2004), LHFMirageBOLD, LHFMirageITALIC, LHFMirageREG, LHFMonogram, LHFQuantumCONVEX, LHFQuantumREG, LHFRomanaClassico, LHFScriptana (great lettering font), LHFTimberlodge, Village, Kelly Ann, Outlaw, Hensler (2002, a cigar box face), Antique Half Block (2002, wood type), Spurred Egyptian, Wolverine, Ortlieb, Super Thick&Thin, Denise, Hensler, Charlotte, Antique Half Block (2002), Supabad (2003), Brianna (2003, techno), Happy Fun Ball (2003, comic book family), Naylorville (2004), LHF Grant's Antique (2004, caps only Victorian face), Michelle (2004), Cafe Corina (2006, a decorative 19th century style free font by Chuck Davis), LHF Ambrosia (2004, a purely Victorian free font by Chuck Davis), Lincoln (2006), No Fishin (2006), LHF Bell Boy (2004, a free art deco font, Chuck Davis), LHF Full Block (2003; free slab serif athletic number face by Davis), Mike's Block (free slab serif by Davis), Old Block (free athletic numbering face by Davis), Old Stock (2007, lettering from old stock market certificates), Hick Sticks (2007, letters made from sticks), LHF Fast Slant (2007, comic book style). At one point, Chuck Davis was running Blu Creative Media, where he published BLU Esoteric (1999). Interview at MyFonts. Letterhead link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Letters by Wordsworth
[Cecilia Ann Harris]

Cecilia Ann Harris is a type designer from Bonne Terre, Missouri, b. 1958, BonneTerre. She created Dog Heaven (2011, handprinted), CroMagnon (2010), an informal face, and the bouncy titling face Fribble (2010). Mile High (2011) is a Victorian family. Hayden Creek (2011) is a great informal script face. Her foundry, Letters by Wordsworth, is located in Colorado. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Listemageren Fontarkiv
[Klaus Johansen]

Klaus Johansen from Odense makes gorgeous dingbats such as Fabeldyr, Ancient Heads, Art Nouveau Headers, Art Nouveau Women, Atleter, Border DingCats, Devils and Dragons, Dutchmen Dingbats, Dingbat Cats, Engleknapper, Fandom Dingbats, Gabriel's Angels, Great Detectives, NY Dingbats, Malacates, Masonic Symbols, Mayan Dingbats, Mexican Ornaments, Mythago Wood, New Dingcats (1997), Ornamenter 1 through 5, Panda, Relieffer, Spirits, Square Ornaments, Statuer, Zodiac Signs, Zodiac02 (1998), Traesnit, Traesnit2, Woodcut1, Woodcut2 and Aeroplanes. Listemageren fonts also include Hans Christian Andersen Papercuttings, and the following alphabet fonts: Carmencita (ornamental Victorian), Preciosa (Victorian), Tropicana (almost like caps), Domino-samlingen, 1998 A, 1998 B, 1998 experimenter..., Fantomet, Karen Helenes Haandskrift, Klaus Johansens Haandskrift, Lewis F. Day No. 191, Lisbjerg, William J. Pearce No. 213, Takker. All postcardware! More complex designs: Children, WW1-A (bicycles), WW1-B, WW1-C, WW1-Planes.

Dafont link. Dafont linkListemageren - Klaus Johansen [Google] [More]  ⦿

Louis Minott

American designer (1912-2003) associated with Visual Graphics Corporation. Creator of the Victorian face Davida (1965, VGC). Digital versions of Davida include Davida EF by Elsner&Flake, a Bitstream version, Delaware (Softmaker) and Ruminata (at Photo Lettering). Bio at Linotype. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Louise Fili

Louise Fili Ltd is a New York-based graphic design firm specializing in food packaging, restaurant identities, logos, and book design. The web page is just out of this world, and the calligraphy and type exquisite. With Steve Heller, she published "Typology Type Design from the Victorian Era to the Digital Age" (Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1999), "Italian Art Deco", "Dutch Moderne, "Streamlne, "British Modern", "French Modern", "German Modern", "Deco Type", "Deco Espana", "Typology", "Belles Lettres" and "Cover Story". Her book cover (done with Jessica Hische) won a design award at TDC 55. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lurex Design
[Alexander Samburov]

Alexander Samburov at Lurex Design is the Russian designer (b. 1965) of the Cyrillic version of Pecmyc Festus, by Steve Lundeen. Other Cyrillizations of well-known fonts: Calligrapher, Demian (based on the Letraset version), Flemish Script, Rapier, Stonehenge, Victorian, Vityaz, VivaldiD, Acadian, Battlefield, Chauser, Romvel. [Google] [More]  ⦿

M. Hausslein

Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of the Victorian display face Spotiger, and the dot matrix experiment These Are Sad Times. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mache Puentes

Designer in Cali, Colombia, b. 1990. Her typeface Columbian Stroke (2012) is a grungy version of a Victorian style. [Google] [More]  ⦿

MacKellar, Smiths and Jordan
[Thomas MacKellar]

Phildadelphia-based foundry, which evolved in 1860 from the Johnson Type Foundry, which in turn evolved from Binny&Ronaldson. The proprietors were Thomas MacKellar (1812-1899), John F. Smith, Richard Smith, and Peter A. Jordan. MacKellar became one of the foundries merged into ATF in 1892. Faces cut by them include the garalde Ronaldson Old Style (1884), named after James Ronaldson, one of its founders, and Campanile (1879). Monotype issued its own version of this face in 1903 with short ascenders and capitals the size of these ascenders. Jim Spiece did a revival of a classic Victorian face and calls it Zinc Italian SG (2002). The Victorian decorative face Ornamented No.5 (1888) was digitized and extended in 2007 by Nick Curtis as Vidalia Sunshine NF. Hermann Ihlenburg was one of their main punch cutters and type designers. Michael Hagemann made a blackletter face Spanish Main (2009) after an 1896 face called Sloping Black. The 1882 blackletter face Borussian was digitized by Nick Curtis and is called McKellar Borussian NF (2009). Hickory (2009, Michael Hagemann) is a revival of an unnamed ornamental Western font dating back to 1852 and was sold through a few different type foundries including Bruce, MacKellar Smiths&Jordan and James Conner's Sons. Monastic (see the1892 book Compact Specimen Book, page 280) was digitized by Toto as K22 Monastic (2010).

Specimen books include Specimens of original printing types cast by the patentees MacKellar, Smiths&Jordan co (ca. 1890), Specimens of printing types: ornaments, borders, corners, rules, emblems, initials, &c (1892, Philadelphia), Specimens of Printing Types (1890), 20th edition of the Compact Specimen Book (1892), Specimens of printing types, borders, cuts, rules, &c. MacKellar, Smiths&Jordan (1868) and Specimens of printing types made by the MacKellar, Smiths&Jordan co., type founders and electrotypers (1889). Also worthy of exploration is 1796-1896: One hundred years, Mackellar, Smiths and Jordan foundry (1896).

Study and listing of their typefaces by yours truly. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Manual Lage

Galician designer in La Coruna, b. 1970, who specialized initially in sexy silhouette fonts: Sexy Spanish Erasmus Girls (2007), Chicas y Mujeres (2007), Sexy Spanish Woman (2007), Gimnasia (2009). He also made the distressed faces TNewPro (2009) and Carboncillo Palo (2007), Galera Coruña (2008, Victorian), and the geometric display face WFF Lage Grafica (2007). Lage Goyesca (2008) is an elegant upright script.

In 2009, he published Sistemas Font BT, which seems to be a copy of or very close to the well-known stencil face Futura Black BT. Fuck This Copy (2011) is a counterless grunge face. In 2012, he published LGF Terra Demo.

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marcela Fernandez

Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the Victorian typeface Leguin (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

María José Benavides

María graduated from Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana de Santiago de Chile in 2007. For the type design course there, she created the swashy blackletter face Gothic Lolita. Blackletter meets Victorian style. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mary Faber

Mary Faber from Hamilton, New Zealand, writes about Mainline, a copperplate creation in 2011: Mainline's style was formed through an amalgamation of two historical typefaces titled Copperplate and Glyptic; research proved these the most popular metal display faces in New Zealand letterpress printing during the period of 1880 to 1900. Despite the lack of typeface designers in New Zealand in the late 1800s, this hybrid typeface design could be considered a national reflection of historic typefaces seen in New Zealand during that time.

She also created Marino (2011): Marino is a contemporary typeface design influenced by a period of New Zealand's typographic history. Its letterforms were created based on research into typeface trends within newspaper advertising from 1920-1940, reflecting the increasing popularity of geometric modernity, and the peak of typographic Art Deco in 1930. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Melle Diete

Berlin-based foundry run by Melle Diete, an ex-disciple of Lucas de Groot at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam. Before her studies she worked in several design agencies on typographic projects. Her typefaces are based on her natural illustrative handwriting. Her fonts are mostly published at Volcano Type. They include:

• Mary Read (2008, a Victorian family). Review by Joshua Lurie-Terrell.
• Mortelle (2008, a delightfully creepy and poisonous concoction).
• Curly (2011, a very curly upright script with marriage potential).
• Fidelia Script (2011, not connected).
• Gingar (2011, fat slab serif poster family).
• Anne Bonny (2011, a didone style handprinted poster family).
• Lulu: A humabnistic sans.
• Mandarine: a curly high-contrast connected upright scripot face.
• Pottwal: an informal 3d family.

Klingspor link.

Interview by MyFonts.

She also has beautiful illustrations, including, e.g., a great 2012 calendar. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mia Parcell

Creator of the Victorian over-ornamented typeface Wonderland (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Jason Browers

Duluth, MN-based designer (b. La Crosse, WI, 1977) of Bombastic (2010, grunge), Jeyran (2010, a blotchy handprinted face done with Elnara Browers), Gladstone (2009, a readable blackletter), Diegeometrische (2008, a stencil for Latin and Cyrillic), Menim Elim (2007, cursive hand), Ellaroza (2007, gorgeous fleurons), Konscript (2007, old typewriter face), Geistig (2006, classical caps), Sophiazoya (2006, Victorian era ornaments), Dovshan (2007, more Victorian era ornaments), Loza (2006, curly antique face), Disjecta (2006, a shaken serif face), Formasi (2006, grunge face), Mehriban (2007, grunge), Mehriban Outline (2008), Squarefill (2008, grungy stencil), Squarefix (2008, grungy stencil), Wingbrush (2008), Somatica (2006, grunge) and Isoglyphics (2005, dingbats). MyFonts page. Alternate URL at MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Michael Montoure

A graduate of the University of Washington. He created the Victorian / Jules Verne look font called Difference Engine for Forever London. [Google] [More]  ⦿

MicroLogic Software
[Frank Hainze]

Frank Hainze (Emeryville, CA) used to sell typefaces such as Adorable, Artisan, Celebrity, Crescent, Duchess, Elegance, Formal, Heather, Imperial, ImperialBold, ImperialBoldItalic, ImperialItalic, Legend, MajesticBold, MasonBook, MasonBookOblique, MasonDemi, MasonDemiOblique, Opera, Salsa, Samurai, Victorian (blackletter, 1994), Wedding.

No longer in business. The fonts are still out there, however. For example, check Samurai here.

Ulrich Stiehl documents all forged fonts on the PrintMaster CD and reports that the quality is remarkably good. Examples: Advantage = ITC Avant Garde Gothic, Architect = Adobe Tekton, Editor = ITC American Typewriter, Enchanted = ITC Korinna, Fantasy = ITC Tiffany, Gallery = ITC Galliard, Geneva = Linotype Helvetica, Gourmand = ITC Garamond, Imperial = ITC New Baskerville, Manuscript = Linotype Palatino, Mason = ITC Lubalin Graph, Mirage = ITC Benguiat, Optimum = Linotype Optima, Tiempo = Monotype Times. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miller&Richard
[William Miller]

Founded by William Miller in Edinburgh in 1809. The company became Miller&Richard in 1838, and closed in 1952, when the designs became the property of Stephenson Blake. They are best known for innovative type design, including hits such as the Miller&Richard Oldstyle (and its boldface, nowadays called Old Style or Century Oldstyle), and Antique Old Style, or Bookman. Specimen book from 1884. In 1974, Bloomfield Books (Owston Ferry Lincs) published a facsimile of Miller&Richards Typefounders Catalogue for 1873. Scans: Cuban, Grange, Ludgate, Teutonic, Tudor Black.

From the 1912 catalog: Grotesque No4, Grotesque No4 Italic, Grotesque No7, Grotesque No7.

Nick Curtis offers a few digitizations: his Millrich Moravian NF (2010) revives Bohemian (1918, a jugendstil face). Millrich Reading NF (2010, Victorian) revives a 1918 Miller&Richard face (by the same name, I presume). Habana Sweets NF (2012) is a Victorian typeface modeled on Cuban (1873).

Canada Type too started digitizing some families: King Tut (2011, Kevin Allan King) is a restoration and expansion of the original Egyptian Expanded (1850). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

mmolai

Type blog. American designer who used Fontifier to create the handwriting font mmolaihandbasic (2008), and who used Fontcapture to make mminland (2009), a Victorian face from the Inland Type Foundry. His blog.

Vector typeface roundup.

He created the ornamental caps face McDonald in vector (EPS) format.

He made a scanfont called Roman Print Variously Shaded (2009), which is an ornamental caps alphabet in EPS format based on document from ca. 1800.

In 2010, he used iFontMaker to create the handprinted outline face Shadow Hand. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Monogram Fonts Co
[Brian J. Bonislawsky]

Commercial foundry, est. 2009 by Brian J. Bonislawsky (Las Vegas, NV), known for his participation in the Astigmatic One Eye Typographic Institute, the Breaking the Norm Font Library, VersusTwin Type Foundry, and Foundry-X. Fonts made in 2009 include MFC Franklin Corners, MFC Manoir Monogram (2009, Victorian initials), MFC Bijou Mopnogram, MFC Escutcheon Monogram, MFC Pantomime Monogram, MFC Peony Monogram (2009), MFC Vice Monogram (an Art Deco letterset (capitals only) from a 1915 publication by Cartier-Bresson of Paris), MFC Viper Monogram (based on Hollywood Combination Initials, found in a 1934 ATF book), MFC Carson Monogram (from Art Monogram and Lettering by J.M. Bergling, Vol. 1, Fifth Edition, 1912), MFC Semicirculus Monogram, MFC Royaume Monogram (after lettering from the 1884 Ames' Guide to Self Instruction in Practical and Artistic Penmanship by Daniel T. Ames), Bindi Monogram (after a 1915 publication by Cartier-Bresson of Paris), Carson Monogram (a letter set from the book Art Monogram and Lettering by J.M. Bergling, Vol. 1, Fifth Edition published in 1912, where it was simply labeled New Antique 53), Noir Monogram (after the "Pearl" letterset from the 1854 Becker's Ornamental Penmanship and Draughtsman's Letter Book by George J. Becker), Diamant Monogram, Distinto Borders (after the Black&White and Running Borders from the 1906 Abridged Keystone Type Foundry Specimen Book), Tagliato Monogram (after a decorative letterset (capitals only) from the 1899-1900 Treatise on Embroidery, Crochet and Knitting booklet by M. Hemingway&Sons Silk Co), Mouchoir Monogram, Memoriam Initials (based on University Initials in the 1934 Book of American Types by ATF), Moissanite Monogram (based on Diamond Combination Monograms from the same book), Monarchy Initials (based on Diamond Combination Monograms from the same book), Morningside Monogram and Neuport Monogram (both based on letters found in the 1934 Book of American Types by American Type Founders), Diamant Monogram, Distinto Borders (based on borders found in the 1906 Abridged Keystone Type Foundry Specimen Book), Ruse Monogram (an all caps face based on DeRoos Inline), Tagliato Monogram (from the 1899-1900 Treatise on Embroidery, Crochet and Knitting booklet by M. Hemingway&Sons Silk Co), and Tryst Monogram. MFC Franklin Corners (2009) is a series of three border dingbat fonts. MFC Hills Medieval (2010) was developed from an overly ornamental blackletter type specimen found in the 1882 Hills Manual of Social and Business Forms. The interesting Victorian outline family Sappho Monogram (2010) was inspired by an alphabet set from the book, Monograms and Alphabets for Combination by Dollfus Mieg&Cie, first published in the 1890s. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Montague M. Bear

Chicago-based designer at BBS of a Victorian face that was patented in 1890. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mucca Design
[Matteo Federico Bologna]

Born in Milan in 1965, Matteo Federico Bologna emigrated to the United States, where he founded Mucca Design in 1999, a company involved in logos, type, and corporate identity. He teaches font design at the Parsons School of Design in New York. Typefaces include Food Mucca, Hair Updown, Littoria, Filo Mucca, Mirra Mucca (gorgeous lettering), Mongo Mucca, Rigid Mucca, Rubens Mucca, Vox Mucca, Egizio Mucca, Latina Mucca, Joung Mucca and Pravda (cyrillic simulation font). Free fonts: Geo Mucca, Fax Mucca, Melt Mucca, Updown Mucca, Pepina Mucca (curly lettering). Mucca Design custom-designed Balazs, Decora, Moranda Serif and Grotesque, One Atlantic (a slabbed Garamond done by Joshua Darden), Faux Cyrillic (done for Manhattan's Pravda restaurant), Victoria's Secret Logotype. At iFontMaker, he did ItalianoAMano, and ItalianoAManoPieno. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Muccatypo.com
[Matteo Bologna]

Established in 2005, Muccatypo's is a group of three type designers that form a subgroup of Mucca Design in New York:

• Matteo Bologna made Decoro (Victorian ornamental face), Sportivo Bold, and Infidelity Pro.
• Will Staehle designed Warren and Valhalla.
• Roberto de Vicq created Bastardo, Wet and Genealogy.

MyFonts: Best of 2009

MyFonts declares the top 10 fonts of 2009.

• Formal scripts: Champion Script Pro (Parachute), the year's most successful formal script font, with 4280 glyphs in all.
• Brush scripts: Liza Pro (Underware).
• Calligraphic display scripts: Memoriam (Canada Type), used in the December 2008 memorial issue of The New York Times.
• Festive scripts: Aphrodite Slim Pro (Typesenses).
• Dingbats: We Love Nature (Kapitza). I personally like their Snow Crystals better.
• Swirligig style: Narziss (Hubert Jocham), with swashes and ball terminals to turn your head.
• Victorian/Edwardian look: Ivory (FaceType).
• Workhorse sans: Alright Sans (Okay Type).
• Serifed text family: Calluna (Jos Buivenga).
• Macho sans: Geogrotesque (Eduardo Manso), in seven weights.

MyFonts: Edwardian

Top Edwardian era fonts at MyFonts. View a longer list. [Google] [More]  ⦿

MyFonts: Victorian fonts

Top Victorian era fonts at MyFonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Narani Kannan

Narani Kannan is a very gifted student at Ontario College of Art&Design in Toronto, pursuing a BDes in Graphic Design. She dabbles in typography and type design and created the organic sans face Pebble in 2008. Beautiful type posters. Home page. He created Victoria (2009, a delicate display face that was inspired by the Victorian elements and ornamental designs). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Natalia Seczkowska

Born in 1983 in Kujawy (Poland), and a 2008 graduate from the University of Fine Arts in Poznan, Natalia Seczkowska's first font, showcased at Behance, is called David (2011). It has a bit of a Victorian look. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Neal Fletcher

Neal Fletcher (Liverpool, UK) studied at the University of Central Lancashire, but was born and raised in Merseyside, England. His fonts are free. He made a typeface out of pieces of circles called Circular Alphabet (2010). Decani (2011, +Stencil) is an ornamental semi-Victorian type family. Creations from 2011 include Dalle and the fun monoline sans family Elega (+Rounded). Bino (2011) is a simple and free sans family with a monospace option.

He complains: is everywhere, in airports, on signage, on TV and in corporate literature. Meta has become synonymous with the German middle ground. Almost too convenient and easy to digest it has spread like a disease. So he made the cancerous grungification of Meta, Metastasis (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Neufville Digital

Fundicion Tipografica Neufville SA is a foundry based in Barcelona, headed by Wolfgang Hartmann, which writes about itself: "Neufville Digital produces and markets the fonts from Fundicion Tipografica Neufville, Bauersche Giesserei, Ludwig&Mayer, Fonderie Typographique Française and Fundicion Tipografica Nacional." List. MyFonts link.

Fonts include a newly digitized Futura family (Paul Renner, 1928), in the Bauer Classics collection. Go here for a description of the old printing machines. In the collection Grafia Latina, we find Diagonal ND (Antoni Morillas, 1970), Uncial Romana (Ricardo Rousselot, 1996), Pascal ND (José Mendoza y Almeida, 1959), Sully-Jonquieres (José Mendoza y Almeida, 1980), Fidelio ND (José Mendoza y Almeida), Llerda ND, Paris ND, Flash ND and Arabescos ND, all by Enric Crous Vidal (1945 to 1953). Check also the Fundicion Tipografica Bauer in Barcelona and Visualogik Technology and Design in the Netherlands. Font list. More details: "Within the GRAPHIE LATINE collection Neufville Digital releases the works of famous typographers like José Mendoza y Almeida, René Ponot, Tomas Vellvé, Antonio Morillas, Ricard Giralt Miracle, Ricardo Rousselot, Juan Trochut and others. The BAUER CLASSICS collection includes the many typefaces from the Bauersche Giesserei. The first fontfamily available is FUTURA that has been completely digitized anew to meet today's professional demands. Many other fonts are to follow. Neufville Digital produces and markets the fonts from Fundición Tipográfica Neufville, Bauersche Giesserei, Ludwig&Mayer, Fonderie Typographique Française and Fundición Tipográfica Nacional. You will certainly be familiar with famous typefaces like Futura, Bauer Bodoni, Weiss, Folio, Imprimatur and many others from the rich type founding era. Neufville Digital digitizes them from their original artwork using state of the art technology and makes them available in compliance with the latest standards." Among the fonts to be reissued, we cite a few. From Ludwig&Mayer: Allemannia Fraktur (1908), Allright (1936), Altenburger Gotisch (1928), Bastard Mediaeval, Beatrice (1931), Chic, Cochin (1922), Commerciale, Diplomat (1964), Firmin Didot (1929), Hallo (1956), Kombinette (1932), Krimhilde (1934), Kupferplatte (1950), Largo (1939), Magnet (1951), Wolfram (1930). From FT Neufville: Antiqua (1850). From FT Nacional: Astur (1940), Belinda (like 15th century Spanish calligraphic writing, with fine curved serifs on the tips of the ascenders), Cervantes, Elzeviriano, Hispalis (1940), Imperio (1949), Inglés (1940), Interpol (1950), Numantina (1940; for a digital version, see Nick Curtis's Numancia NF (2011)), Radar (1940), Romana, Victoriana (1940). From the Bauersche Giesserei: Astoria (1911), Azurée (1908), Baron (1911), Baroness (1911), Baskerville-Antiqua (1923), Batarde (1915), Bauer Bodoni (1926), Fette Antiqua (1850), Lithographia (1895), Manuskript Gotisch (1899), Noblesse (1908), Steile Futura, Stephanie (1890), Times-Antiqua, Venus (1907). From FT Française: Bizerte, Italienne, Romantiques (1937), Stylo (1937). Their Catalogo de tipos (1978) shows many other typefaces too, so, with some repetition, we find the handwriting/script faces Vigor, Sinfonia, Privat, Sirena, Maxim, Litografia, Leyenda (Legend), Bernhard Cursive and Adagio, the federal money typeface Azuree (1908), the typewriter family Ibematic, OCR A-1, the blackletter face Gotico (or Manuskript-Gotisch), the outline fonts Royal and Columna, the checkbook face Litho, the display faces Nobleza and Carnaby, the Egyptian family Epoca (=Beton), as well as Homera (=Hyperion), Corvinus, Volta and Impressum. Galaxy ND (2006) is a mysterious, organic and quite useless typeface.

Showcase of Neufville's fonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

New Typography
[Vernon Adams]

Vernon Adams (born England, 1967) is a furniture restorer, woodcarver and typeface designer. New Typography is his type design site. Vernon graduated in 2007 with an MA in type design from the University of Reading. Fontspace link. Google Plus link. Fontsquirrel link. Klingspor link.

He developed Mako (2007), a type family for text and image in magazines. Earlier, he created AutoPacHousehold. Nobile (2010) is part of the Google font directory. Through the Open Font Library, one can get the source Fontforge code for this open source sans family. About Mako, he writes that he submitted the font to Fontsmith, which sat on it for a while and rejected it, only to publish a few weeks later Lurpak, which according to Vernon is too similar to his rejected design. Free fonts at Google Code by Vernon, as of the end of 2010 include Coda (a heavy elliptical face), Nobile (mentioned above), Corben (a curvy bold face in the style of Cooper Black), and Gruppo (a thin sans).

In 2011, he added Coustard (a slab serif family), Damion (connected signage script), Smythe (Victorian), Radley (display face), Oswald (a reowking of the Alternate Gothic style), Candal (sans), Pacifico (connected signage face), Bangers (comic book face), Anton (heavy sans), Bevan (a reworking of Beton, a traditional slab serif display typeface created by Heinrich Jost in the 1930s), Six Caps (a condensed headline face), Meddon (a display font created from the handwritten script of an Eighteenth century legal document), Rokkitt (an Egyptian), Paytone One (headline face), Holtwood One SC (wood block simulation face), Monofett (white on black), Carter One (casual face), Francois One (gothic sans), Sigmar One (think mid twentieth century pulp magazine advertising), Bigshot One, Metrophobic, Mako, Francois One, Nunito (rounded), Shanti, Sigmar, Muli (minimalist sans), Kameron (an Egyptian), Stardos Stencil, Bowlby One, Bowlby One SC (fat poster face), Tienne (serif), Monoton (a multiline face in the style of Koch's Prisma, 1931), Sancreek (emulating an ornamental wood font), Amatic SC (handprinted poster family), Sancreek (a Tuscan face), Oswald (in the old Alternate Gothic tradition of sans faces), Rammetto (based on the Stephenson Blake uppercase display font Basuto, released in 1926), and Michroma (modeled after Microgramma).

Typefaces made in 2012 include Oxygen (a sans face available from Google Web Fonts), Norican (free script font at Google Web Fonts based in part on Stephenson Blake's Glenmoy from the 1920s), Cutive (free at Google Web Fonts, based on the IBM typewriter faces Executive and Smith-Premier), Pontano Sans (Google Web Fonts: a light basic sans), Trocchi (Google Web Fonts: derived from Nebiolo's Egiziano, and Caslon & Co's Antique No.4 and Ionic No.2). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nick Belshaw

Designer of Frankfurter Highlight (1978-1981, with Alan Meeks), Victorian Inline Shaded (1980) and the curly Belshaw EF (1980, Linotype).

FontShop link. Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Nick Curtis

Nick Curtis (b. Chicago, 1948) lived in Texas from 1952-1997, and lives since 1997 in Gaithersburg, MD and Alexandria, MD. From ca. 1990 onwards, he has been designing fonts, first for free, and then commercially. He had a great reputation as a "revivalist" type designer, with a particular interest in retro fonts and art deco types. In 2003, his site had become too popular and too expensive to maintain, and thus he went commercial as Nick's Fonts. Interview. Free downloads at TypOasis. Complete list of names and other info, maintained by Sander de Voogt. Interview in which we learn about his fondness for Corel Draw as a type design tool. Home page. Dafont link.

View the typefaces designed by Nick Curtis. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Nick Curtis: Commercial faces
[Nick Curtis]

Nick Curtis (b. Chicago, 1948) lived in Texas from 1952-1997. Since 1997, he is in Gaithersburg, MD and Alexandria, MD. Since the 1990s, he has been designing fonts, first for free, and then commercially. He had a great reputation as a "revivalist" type designer, with a particular interest in retro fonts and art deco types. In 2003, his site had become too popular and too expensive to maintain, and thus he went commercial as Nick's Fonts. Interview. Free downloads at TypOasis. Complete list of names and other info, maintained by Sander de Voogt. Interview in which we learn about his fondness for Corel Draw as a type design tool. Home page. His free fonts are listed elsewhere.

On MyFonts, he says this about himself: Nick's Fonts is a modest little foundry dedicated to the preservation of our rich typographic heritage. Most of the foundry's designs are based on authentic historical sources, gleaned from the massive collections of the Library of Congress. If you are looking for a font that captures the essence of the Wild West, the Gay Nineties or the Jazz Age, look here first: if it is not in the catalog, it will be soon. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Nick Curtis: Victorian faces
[Nick Curtis]

It is difficult to precisely define a Victorian typeface. They range from the ridiculously ornate faces from 1850-1870 to awkwardly balanced display faces and the pre-art nouveau trends. Nick Curtis's revivals in this genre are listed below.

• AnagramShadowNF. A free font. Commercial version in 2008. Anagram Shadow NF is based on handlettering from a 1928 poster for a steamship line by renowned British artist Austin Cooper.
• Beantown Bounce NF (2007) revives Century, an ornamental display face from the 1898 catalog of the Boston Type Foundry.
• Brownwood NF (2011). The inspiration for this semi-Victorian semi-art nouveau typeface came from a 1906 travel poster, promoting the Hotel Braunwald, located in the Swiss Alps.
• Cleveland Litho NF (2007), a curly Victorian face, appeared in the 1898 specimen book of the Cleveland Type Foundry, under the name of Litho, while Yum Yum NF (1898) appeared in Cleveland's 1893 specimen book as Mikado.
• DoctorJekyllNF. A free font.
• Durham Abbey NF (2005). Based on a Victorian era font called Romanesque, which can be found in the Dan X. Solo collection.
• Dury Lane (2007) is based on a Victorian era release by Blake Type Foundry called Blackfriars.
• FancyPantsNF. A free font.
• Federlyn NF (2010) and Federlyn Initials NF (2011). Based on the Edwardian-era Artcraft by Robert Wiebking.
• Filibuster NF (2007). This curly über-Victorian face is based on Congress, an ornamental face found in H. C. Hansen Type Foundry's catalog of 1909.
• GingerPeachyNF. A free font.
• Great Sage NF (2010). That ugly duckling Victorian face Karnac (1888, ATF) [not to be confused with the Egyptian face Karnak by R.H. Middleton] led Nick Curtis to Great Sage NF.
• Habana Sweets NF (2012). Based on Cuban (1873, Richard & Miller).
• HardlyWorthit. A free font.
• HornswoggledNF. A free font.
• HutSutRalstonNF (2001). A free font.
• LabyrinthCapital, Labyrinth (1999, 2007). Based on this poster. A free font family.
• Londonderry Air NF (2002-2004) is based on Canterbury Old Style RR, a 1930s lettering face from the ATF catalogue.
• MarchMadnessNF (2003). A free font. Inspired by lettering from a 1920s Italian poster by legendary postermeister Marcello Dudovich.
• MetropolisNF. A free font. Based on this movie poster from 1927 by Hungarian Josef Bottlik.
• Millrich Reading NF (2010). A Victorian face that revives a 1918 Miller&Richard face.
• Nickelodeon NF (1999). A free font. This is sometimes compared with silent movie fonts.
• Nickley Normal (1997). A free font based on arts and crafts lettering by William Joseph Dard Hunter.
• Oaken Bucket NF (2009).
• Oh You Klid NF (2009). Based on a Victorian face by Central Type Foundry called Euclid (1880s).
• Palmer Oxonian NF (2011). Based on Oxford (Palmer&Rey, 1884).
• PasticheCapital, Pastiche. A free font.
• PayzantPenNF (2001). A free font, with a commercial version in 2010. Payzant Pen NF is based on Frank H. Atkinson's A Show at Sho-Cards: Comprehensive, Complete, Concise, published in 1918, executed with the then-state-of-the-art Payzant Reservoir Pen.
• Plus de Vagues NF (2006). Based on a curly semi-Victorian alphabet by Stephenson Blake called Recherché.
• Putney Junction NF (2007). Based on a BBS face called Design, ca. 1900.
• RhumbaScriptNF. A free font. Based on Tango Italic (1922, Ernst Deutsch), it is often compared with silent movie fonts.
• Shady Lady NF (2005). An ornamental shaded caps face called Umbra in the 1907 Barnhart Brothers&Spindler type specimen catalog.
• ShangriLaNF, ShangriLaNFSmallCaps (2002). A free font family. The commercial version was done in 2008. Based on a Victorian alphabet from the 1922 chapbook Modern Show Card Writing, by Joseph Bertram Jowitt.
• Sil Vous Plait NF (2009). A Victorian text face based on a 1917 font by Morris Fuller Benton called Invitation.
• SouciSans (1999). A free font. Based on a type design by Sam Welo shown in Lettering Modern and Foreign (1930).
• Speedball No1, Speedball No2 SW (2001), Speedball No3 (2001). SpeedballNo1NF-Bold, SpeedballNo1NF, SpeedballNo2NF-Bold, SpeedballNo2NF, SpeedballNo2SW, SpeedballNo3, SpeedballNo3NF-Bold, SpeedballNo3NF. This series is based in part on alphabets by Samuel Welo.
• Streamers NF (2005). A Victorian-era typeface called Fillet revived.
• Tanglewood Tales (2000). A free font.
• Vidalia Sunshine NF (2007). An extension of the 1888 all caps typeface Ornamented No. 5 from MacKellar, Smiths&Jordan.
• Vintage Panels NF (2011): Victorian panels.
• VlaanderenChiseledNF, VlaanderenRoundNF, VlaanderenSquareNF. A free font family. These are based on an untitled work by Dutch designer André Vlaanderen from 1928. These are ugly ducklings because they mix various inconsistent styles without much thought.

Nicole Fally

Austrian-born graduate from the type design program at the University of Reading in 2010. She created the typeface Miss Informed there. It has Latin styles (regular, italic, connected script), as well as Hebrew styles (regular and script). The Latin has one-sided serifs to fit in with the Hebrew. The italic and script styles are soft, smooth and balanced. In 2011, she published Hammersmith One with sorkin Type / Google Font Directory: Hammersmith One is a very low contrast typeface inspired by the Johnston UK lettering tradition. Hammersmith One shows the quirks of a somewhat naive, handmade, brush written letters including a wider than normal "e" and "s" as well as dark joins between stroke which are normally compensated for in type. The sources for this design have been adapted not just for type but specifically for use as a web type. This font works well to even smaller sizes than was originally expected. Nicole Fally's elegant art deco face Limelight (2011, Sorkin Type) can also be found on the Google Font Directory, as well as Ovo (2011). Vast Shadow (2011) is a Victorian slab serif advertising type. Pinyon Script (2011) is a romantic round hand script style font.

Google Plus link. Oldenburg (2012, Google web fonts) is a slabby bouncy poster face. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

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FontStructor who made Aesthete (2011). He/she is a student at UWE in Bristol who writes: Typeface based on the work of Victorian Designer and Architect E. W. Godwin (1833-1886) born in Stokes Croft, Bristol. He was influential in the Aesthetic movement that created "the look" of Victorian Britain. He began his career working in the strongly polychromatic "Ruskinian Gothic" style of mid-Victorian Britain, inspired by The Stones of Venice, then moved on to provide designs in the "Anglo-Japanese taste" of the Aesthetic Movement and Whistler's circle in the 1870s. A friend of Oscar Wilde, James Whistler and William Burges he was also the father of revered actress Dame Ellen Terrys illegitimate child. Godwin's influence can be detected in the Arts and Crafts Movement. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Palmer and Rey
[John J. Palmer]

Typefounders and printing press in San Francisco. The Miller&Richard Type Foundry of Scotland opened a branch in San Francisco in 1878, headed by John J. Palmer. This branch was sold to Palmer and Valentine J. A. Rey in 1882. In 1884, Palmer&Rey acquired the assets of the Pacific Type Foundry. The company then merged into American Type Founders in 1892. They published New specimen book (1884, San Francisco), in which we find several original typefaces, such as the Octic series (athletic lettering, octagonal) and the very Victorian face Oxford.

Digitizations: In 2010, Nick Curtis created a digital version of their Courier, and called it Pony Xpress NF. Rightly So NF (2011, Nick Curtis) is a squarish face based on Geometric Gothic from the 1884 specimen book of Palmer and Rey---it is hard to imagine that this almost pixelish style was around at that epoch. Oxford was revived by Nick Curtis as Palmer Oxonian NF (2011). Octic was revived in 2012 by Nick Curtis as Easy Eights NF. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Patten Wilson

British Victorian, pre-art nouveau illustrator, 1868-1928. Creator of this (lettered) set of Modern Capitals. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paul J. Lloyd

About 100 free TrueType fonts by University of Western Australia lecturer Paul Lloyd (b. UK), many of them elaborate caps fonts: Larkin Capitals (2004), QuaNauticale Initials (2004, with Manfred Klein), Blavicke Capitals (2002), FoliarInitials (2002, Caps), Halftone (2003, blackletter), UltraBlack (2003, blackletter), Infula (2002, Caps), Strelsau (2002, Fraktur), Dampfplatz-DemiBold (2002, Fraktur), DampfplatzShadow-Black (2002, Fraktur), DampfplatzSolid-Black (2002, Fraktur), GenzschEtHeyse (2002, Fraktur), GenzschEtHeyseAlternate (2002, Fraktur), Moderna (2002, Fraktur), Lightfoot (2002), Nuffield Initials (2002), Cantebriggia (2002, Fraktur), Charterwell (2002, Fraktur), Portcullion (2002, blackletter), Portculliard Initials (2003, blackletter), Proclamate (2002, blackletter), Zenda (2002, blackletter), Teutonic (2002, blackletter), Medieval Victoriana (2002, caps), Portland Roman (2002), Wolnough (2002, caps), Landsdowne (2002, + Shadow: Victorian faces), Grimeswade (2002, caps), Orotund-Heavy, OrotundCapitals-Heavy (2002), Minster (2002, a 6-font Fraktur family), Killigrew (2002, Fraktur), Minim (2002, Fraktur), Coltaine (2002), Emporium Capitals (2002), Penshurst (2002), Cherubim Initials (2002), Pompadour Initials (2002), Casua (2002), Wadsworth's Industria (2002), Radaern Script (2002), Queen Empress (2002), Lisburne Initials (2002), Dundalk (2002), Claritty (2002, handprinting), Mysterious Voyage (2002), Arborial (2002), Deepwoods (2002), Florana (2002), Springtime (2002), Topiary (2002), Woodland (2002), Bertham, Camelot Initials, Chocolate Box (2002), Altea, Mosaic (2002, caps), Burgoyne (2002, caps), Hentzau Initials (2002), Engravier (2002, caps), Rustick Capitals (2002), Louvaine (2002), Chipperfield&Bailey (2002), Boister Black (2002, blackletter; the commercial Boister Black Pro was done in 2009 at CheapProFonts), Quill (2002), Erasmus (2002), Birmingham, Bolton, Brassett (2001), Chancera, Glastonbury, Grantham, E-Caps, CleaversJuvena, CoronationScot, Chronos, Brodgnorth, Draughtsman (2002), Duvall, Helena, Hominis, Imperator, Lewisham, Newstyle, Noir-et-Blanc, Peake, Priory, Ruritania, Shrewsbury, Simplicity, Sylph, Ubiqita_Europa, Woodcut Capitals, Watson, Wrenn, Imperator, Trefoil Capitals (2002), TinplateTitling, Freame, Graphis, Dutch I, Festival, Festival Flourish, d'Spenser, Sylvan-Capitals, Helena, Bridgnorth and Paladin Caps. In his Black Jewels series (as in "blackletter"), he published Black (2002), Germanica (2002), and is working on Minim and Killigrew. Most faces come in many weights, and are carefully manicured products. Other Lloyd creations may be found here, here, here, here, or here in Russia. In 2008, he started a commercial foundry, Greater Albion Typefounders. Font Squirrel link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

PeGGO
[Pedro González Jorquera]

Type designer graphic designer, calligrapher and illustrator from Chile, who graduated in graphic design in 2005 from the Universidad del Bío-Bío., b. 1977, Santiago de Chile. Aka PeGGO, a foundry established in 2002. MyFonts link. PeGGO designed some commercial fonts, such as:

• Farola (2008, a curly Victorian face; +Farola Simple, without curls).
• Legan (2008, a mini-serifed Trajan face).
• Thörtl (an angular display face).
• Gothric (gothic).
• Claramaria (sans).
• Claramaria Mega Black, Claramaria Extra Light (hairline version).
• Fonton (a fat elliptical face; images i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x). I can't understand why Fonton has not won any major awards. Even in this popular genre, it stands on a pedestal all by itself.
• Cuadrada (2010, angular).
• Lighton Extra Light (2011). An elliptical hairline sans.
• Trianglery (2010, calligraphic).
• Politic (+ExtraLight, +ExtraBlack: a slabbed family).
• Bolta.
• Minesmall (handprinted).
• SP-Font (squarish).
• Halcön (2008, blackletter).
• Krämfark (2008, blackletter).

Calligraphic works include L'Ecole d'Fine Arts (2009), Paradise Duck, Eclesiastes (based on "La Rueda" of Sheila Waters, 1981), Behance link. MyFonts foundry link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Pilcrow Type
[Paul D. Hunt]

Type and graphic designer from Joseph City, AZ. He has been a type designer at P22/Lanston since 2004. In 2008, he obtained an MA in typeface design from the University of Reading with typefaces called Grandia and Grandhara (Indic). In January 2009, he joined Adobe just after Thomas Phinney left. He created Howard (2006, a digitization of Benton's Sterling), P22 Allyson (2006, based on Hazel Script by BB&S; a winner at Paratype K2009), the P22 FLWW Midway font family (2006: Midway One, Two and Ornaments; based on the lettering found on the Midway Gardens working drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright---tall-legged and casual), Kilkenny (2005, P22), a Victorian-style font based on the metal types named Nymphic and Nymphic Caps which were designed by Hermann Ihlenburg in 1889. This face has almost 1000 glyphs and comes in OpenType format. It includes Cyrillic characters. Check the studies here and here. For another revival of Nymphic Caps, see Secesja by Barmee. Designer of the display faces Seventies Schoolbook (2004) and Interlocq (2004). He also digitized Goudy's Village (2005) and Hazel Script (BB&S), which he renamed Allyson (2005). Still in 2005, he created a digital version of Sol Hess' Hess Monoblack called LTC Hess Monoblack. In 2006, he published a nice set of connected calligraphic script fonts, P22 Zaner. Bodoni 175 (2006, P22/Lanston) is a revival of Sol Hess' rendition of Bodoni. Working on Junius (2006), a revival/adaptation of Menhart Antiqua.

Fun creations at FontStruct in 2008-2009: Possibly (a stencil loosely based on the Mission Impossible series logo), Probably (same as Possibly but not stenciled), Med Splode, Arcade Fever, negativistic_small, new_alpha_1line, new_alpha_4line, new_alpha_bit, new_alpha_dot, new_azbuka, positivistic, slabstruct_1, slabstruct_too, structurosa_1, structurosa_bold, structurosa_bold_too, structurosa_caps, structurosa_faux_bold, structurosa_leaf, structurosa_script, structurosa_soft, structurosa_tape, structurosa_too, structurosa_two, Slabstruct Too Soft, Structurosa Clean Soft, Structurosa Script Clean, Structurosa Clean, Structurosa Clean Too, Structurosa Clean Leaf, Structurosa Boxy, Stucturosa Script Heavy.

Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Portland Type Co
[Pete McCracken]

Typefoundry in Portland, OR, run by Pete McCracken, who headed Plazm before that. Plazm in fact morphed into Portland Type Co. Their (mostly custom) typefaces:

• Spore (2008). Developed together with Veronika Burian for the hit game Spore by Electronic Arts Video Games.
• Viva Portland (2012).
• Target Five Percent: a pair of custom typefaces designed for Target in collaboration with Brad Trost, Wieden+Kennedy.
• Starbucks: a type family for the coffee company.
• Dodge: Custom typeface for Dodge.
• Dr. Martens: a handprinted custom type design.
• Adidas Adihaus: custom typeface done for Adidas.
• Bushmill: A custom typeface for an Irish Whiskey brand.
• McMenamin's Poor Farm (2012). A custom Victorian typeface.
• Victory Neue: a custom font family done for Nike. It grew out of a Plazm font family called Victory.

Gallery of Pete's design and custom type work. Personal web site.

Pete lectures at Pacific Northwest College of Art (or PNCA). His articles at PNCA include an interview with Jonathan Barnbrook and a discussion of web fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

PrimaFont

Foundry that was run in the 1990s by Christine Mauerkirchner and Rainer Grunert out of Kronberg, Germany. They made about 30 free Truetype and PostScript fonts, and are selling over 2000 fonts at 2.50 Euro a shot. Check here for Berthold A.G. clones of all famous families. The main PrimaFont collection in PostScript cost 1700 USD! As far as I can tell, if the 30 free-font sampler is any indication, this collection is not different from the good old Adobe, Monotype or Linotype collections, which may all be found somewhere if one looks hard enough.

Free fonts: Cheboygan, Exmouth (copperplate script), Livingstone (uncial), Marlon Book, Oliver (Victorian), Scoutlight DB, Shanghai (oriental simulation face), and Xtra (Greek simulation face).

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Production First Software
[John M. Fiscella]

Production First Software offers original, revival and historic designs and specializing in non-latin scripts including Armenian, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Thai, mathematical symbols and pi characters. It is run by John M. Fiscella in San Francisco since 1990, with most typefaces created immediately after that. John M. Fiscella designed the fonts for symbols and many of the alphabetic scripts for the unicode charts and all typefaces complky with unicode standards. Type glossary. List of typefaces: BernalPF, Blck2LineGothicPF Logo, Blck3LineGothicPF Logo, Blck4LineGothicPF Logo, CourPF, CourPF Bold, CourPF BoldOblique, CourPF Oblique, EdwardianMansePFTitling, EriePF, EuroPF-Bold, EuroPF-BoldOblique, FiftiesPopPF, GrandVictorianPFTitling, HlvPF Bold, HlvPF BoldOblique, HlvPF Medium, HlvPF Oblique, ItalianatePF, ItalianateMulticolor1PF, ItalianateMulticolor2PF, ItalianateMulticolor3PF, ItalianateSansPF, LafayettePF, LosPFBold, MisionPFAntique, MisionPFBold, MisionPFBook, MisionPFBookMetal, MisionPFLight, MisionPFTitling, PalouPFTitling, PiazzaPFScript, RadioPF, RadioCityPF, SymbolPF Bold, SymbolPF BoldItalic, SymbolPF Italic, TexMexPF, TmsPF Bold, TmsPF BoldItalic, TmsPF Cursive, TmsPF Italic, TmsPF Rom +, TmsMathPF Cursive, TmsHebWidePF Rom, UnvPF Bold, UnvPF BoldOblique, UnvPF Oblique, UnvPF Medium, UviewPF Bold, UviewPF BoldOblique, UviewPF Oblique, UviewPF Medium, ZenonPFTitling. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Rattlesnake Jack's Font Gallery

Archive specializing in Old West, Victorian and rustic fonts. Has some fonts such as Evita (WSI, 1995), Gambler (Adam Wunn and Wunn Way Software, 1994), GoldRush (SWFTE, 1995), Holtzschue (caps by David Rakowski, 1992), Ironwood (Fantazia), Intimacy (Emerald City Fontwerks), Lewisham (Paul Lloyd, 1996), Madfont (Harold Lohner, 1999), PostOffice, Playbill (Stephenson Blake and URW, 1992), Purcell (caps by Scriptorium, 1996), SaloonExt (Robert Schenk, 1990), Shadowed Serif (J. Fordyce, 1994), StageCoach (1992), URWWoodTypD (1994), Victorian Inline Shaded (Letraset, 1993), Watson (Paul Lloyd, 1998), Western Slant (David Works, 1992), Woodcut (1993). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ray Meadows

Aka p2pnut, b. Wales, 1943, who started making fonts in 2009 at FontStruct. Alternate URL. Dafont link. Klingspor link. In 2010, Ray Meadows set up shop at MyFonts.

Prolific creator at FontStruct in 2009 of the 3d faces Alphabox, Alphabox Reverse, Alphabox Lite, Alphabox Lite Complete, Alphabox Shadow and Alphabox Basic. He also made RM Playtime (outlined 3d family), Art DECOrated, Single DECOr, Romantic (+Carved, +Carved Shadow), TripleDECOr, New Romantic, SOFA, Mondrianish, Eye Test, Meltdown (grunge), Amesian (American Sign Language), DECO Noir, DECOction, DECOserif (+Bold), DECOoction (+Bold Open), DEChrome, DECOpix, DECOr (a pure art deco face like Levine's Art Lover JNL), DECOThin (+Medium), Scrapheap, Westward (Far West font), Cheese Fondue, Alphabox Reverse (shadow font), AlphaRune, Spaced, Gothicky, Grand Prix, Entrees (alphadings), Compround, Phatzzo (nice!), DECOr8, Gothicky, Gothicky Grey, RM Ginger, RM Albion (blackletter), and Opening (outline face). RM Squarial (2009) is a hairline sans. Its 3d version is RM Squarial 3D. RM Typewriter (2009, +Medium, +Bold, +Old) is an old typewriter face. RM Serifangle (outline art nouveau face, +3D, +Chrome, +3DChrome) and RM Corrugation (postage stamp, white on black style) are both interesting. RM DECO Serif (2009) is in the RM Typewriter style series. RM Bowie Basic is a futuristic face based on the face used on Mars in "The Waters of Mars" (2009). RM Playtime Stencil (2009) is a rounded stencil face based on RM Playtime Solid. There are more styles such as RM Playtime 3D.

Additions in 2010: RM New Albion (blackletter), RM Lined, RM Serifangle (+3D, +3D Chrome), RM Serifancy (Western face), RM Almanack (+Old), RM Tubeway (+Chrome), RM Thinny, RN White Letter, RM Blacklet, RM Squarial (+Ribbon), RM Typewriter Old, RM 7even, RM SideSlip, RM Teeny, RM Teeny 1.5, RM Narrowboat (+3D) (athletic lettering).

His faces at MyFonts include RM Victoriana (2010, caps only Victorian face), RM Whiteletter (2010), RM Signwriter (athletic lettering), RM Deco (pure Broadway art deco), RM True to Type (typewriter face), RM Scrapheap, RM Elegance (condensed, with high ascenders), RM Playtime, Graphite

Creations in 2011: RM Celtic, RM Uncialic, RM A Sign of the Times, RM Sans, RM Oliver (bold rounded sans), RM Soft Sans (wonderfully round sans), RM True To Old Type (old typewriter), RM True to Type (new typewriter), RM Phatso, RM Phatso 2.0, RM Phatso 2.0 Solid (texture faces).

Creations in 2012: RM Basic Serif (roamn face).

Creations in 2012: RM Slab. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Reading Type
[Ben Weiner]

Reading Type is a UK enterprise that offers free fonts designed by Ben Weiner, a British information designer specialising in internet work. Fonts: Acknowledgement (2001, heavy slab serif), Bentham (didone), Crop, Geo (1999, a squarish face completed in four hours---influenced by modernist designers such as Theo van Doesberg and Herbert Bayer), GeoOblique, Lineastraightforward, Puritan (grotesque), PuritanBold, PuritanBoldItalic, PuritanItalic, RolloutBold, RolloutBoldItalic, RolloutPlain, RolloutRegularItalic, St. Margaret's Cross (2008, a Victorian Gothic revival cross drawn over a photo of a stone cross in the masonry of St Margaret's church, Oxford, England). Acknowledgement (2001, OFL) is an Egyptian face.

Dafont link. Another URL. And another Open Font Library URL. Fontsquirrel link. Google Code link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Richard Beatty

Richard Beatty (Colorado) made beautiful fonts, often revivals and interpretations of old typefaces and calligraphic designs, around 1990-1993 under the name "Richard Beatty Designs". In all, he created over 500 designs, but most were only for private or corporate use. Typefaces:

• Baxter New Style (1988), Baxter Old Style (1988)
• Beatty Victoriana (1991): a set of five Victorian era fonts---Wanted, Spiral, Recherché, Hermosa and Childs (1985). Hermosa and Childs are nearly art nouveau. Childs is a revival of an 1892 face by Hermann Ihlenburg. Puzzling note: the Linotype catalogue says that Kismet was designed in 1879 by John F. Cumming. When you look at Spiral by Richard Beatty, you find a close copy of Kismet; Beatty says it's an "edited version of Kismet", but he holds the copyright. Is this another case of legal cloning?
• Benjamin (2002, BeattyType): from sketches by Ed Benguiat.
• BernardsHand (beautiful medieval hand)
• Borders (1990, some designed by R. Mitchell and R. Beatty)
• Calligraph Initials (1997): a Lombardic face.
• Civilite
• Cooper
• Desdemona (1994, +Black): art nouveau
• Doric
• Duchy, Duchy Initials (2002): A blackletter face based on a sketch by Ed Benguiat of Benton's Dutch Initials.
• Elizabeth (1994, BeattyType): An all caps almost uncial face.
• Fanny Mitchell, Fanny Mitchell Initials
• GeneralMenou
• Goodhue
• Goudy faces [Goudy is his favorite type designer]: Goudy Claremont (1993: based on Scripps College Old Style), Goudy Italian, Goudy Mediaeval Beatty, Goudy Saks (1990: based on a typeface designed in 1934 by Goudy for Saks Fifth Avenue in New York), Kennerley Old Style (1986, after Goudy's 1911 design)
• Jensen Eusebius, Jensen Eusebius New Style (1989)
• 11LivingstonJCL
• Lucianard
• Mediaeval Calligraphy
• Ornaments (based on 1928 figures drawn by E. Adler)
• Overdressed (2002): based on a sketch by Edward Benguiat for his Phototype Company.
• Prairie Poster (Plain, Fancy): arts and crafts face.
• Quillsong (calligraphic)
• ReneLouis (1992)
• Rolls Royce Designer
• Troyer
• Velda (2005, connected hand): the handwriting of Velda Burgess Will, classmate of the designer.
• White Tie, White Tie Relaxed (2005): roman lettering.

RMU (Ralph Michael Unger Typedesign)
[Ralph Michael Unger]

Ralph M. Unger (b. 1953, Thuringia, East Germany) says this about himself at MyFonts: Typesetter from the composing stick via Linotype setting machines to the Mac. Jobs in various Thuringian printeries. Barred further education by Communist authorities due to political reasons. Imprisoned in East Germany. Since 1988 in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, former West Germany. Jobs in several newspaper printing houses as advertisement compositor. Own office since 1995, in Aalen, Baden-Wuerttemberg. He lives in Schwaebisch Gmuend, and was a freelance type designer for Profonts and URW++, where he contributed frequently to these libraries between 2002 and 2009. In 2009, he founded RMU. MyFonts link. I split his contributions into two groups, the URW / Profonts group, and the RMU group. The prefix FontForum refers to a subseries of URW++ fonts. Unless specifically mentioned, all the following fonts are at URW++:

• FontForum Admiral Script (2005): revival of Middleton's Admiral script from 1953.
• Amitié (2009): a garalde family.
• Arabella Pro (2006): after the script by Arnold Drescher from 1936, published at Joh. Wagner.
• Fontforum Atrament (2006): architectural lettering. Do not confuse with a Suitcase Type Foundry font from 2003 by the same name.
• Atze (2010): a comic book family.
• Behrensschrift D (2007): after the jugendstil face Behrens Schrift, 1902, by Peter Behrens.
• FontForum Bernhard Script (2005): after Bernhard Script from the 1920s.
• Bradley (2005): blackletter, after the original by William H. Bradley.
• Breite Kanzlei (2007).
• Breitkopf Fraktur (2003): after the original by Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, done in 1793.
• Brocken (2011) is a signage face inspired by a design of Volker Küster (1960s).
• Profonts Bureau (2010, Profonts): a minimalist rounded sans family.
• FontForum Calypso (2005): a revival of Roger Excoffon's Calypso (1958).
• Card Pro (2006): a decorative display based on lettering by Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos.
• Chaweng (2006, Profonts): an oriental all caps simulation face.
• Civilite URW (2005).
• Compliment (2004, casual script).
• Cranach (2007): a blackletter face modeled after Kuenstler Gotisch from the Krebs Foundry.
• Dominante (2007): a serif family based on Johannes Schweitzer's font by that name, 1959.
• Dominique (2010, profonts): an informal typeface.
• FontForum URW Ecsetiras (2005): revival of Ecsetirás (Zoltan Nagy, 1967, a brush face).
• Edda Pro (2008): an art nouveau face that revives a Heinrich Heinz Heune face from 1900.
• Energia Pro (2008, Profonts): connected monowidth script, based on Arno Drescher's Energos from 1932.
• Estro (2003, Western lettering). Seems close to Nebiolo's Estro from the 60s.
• Eurobrush Pro (2007, Profonts): handwriting.
• EuroSans (2008).
• Euroscript Pro (2006, Profonts): school script face.
• Flashes (2007): a revival of Crous-Vidal's Flash, 1953.
• Fox (2007): a brush script based on W. Rebhuhn's original from the 1950s.
• Gamundia (2010): a calligraphic copperplate script inspired by Excoffon's Diane.
• Ganz Grobe Gotisch (2006): a fat blackletter modeled after the original by F.H.E. Schneidler.
• Gmuender Elan Pro (2011) is a 1950s style script face.
• Gradl Nr 1 (2008): based on hand-drawn art nouveau upper case characters by M. J. Gradl, ca. 1900.
• Graphique Pro (2008): shadowed caps face, based on Graphique, which was originally created by Swiss designer Hermann Eidenbenz in 1945, and issued as hot metal font by Haas'sche Schriftgießerei. See also New Graphique Pro (2011).
• Handel Slab (2009): a 6-style extension of Trogram's 1980 face Handel Gothic.
• Hanseat (2010): a grotesque family done at Profonts. It was heavily inspired by Germany's official DIN 1451 Engschrift.
• Iova Nova (2007): based on Jowa Script, designed by J. Wagner in 1967.
• Profonts Impression (2008): art deco.
• Jessen Schrift (2004): after the Rudolf Koch blackletter face by that name.
• FontForum URW Konzept Pro (2005): revival of Konzept (1968, Martin Wilke's handprinting face).
• Legende (2002): a script face based on the original typeface of Friedrich Hermann Ernst Schneidler (1937).
• Leipziger Antiqua. The original Leipziger Antiqua by Alfred Kapr at Typoart dates from 1971-1973. The digital version of Leipziger Antiqua was developed by Ralph M. Unger in 2005.
• Manuskript Antiqua (2005): after Oldrich Meinhart's Manuskript Antiqua.
• The Maszynysta family of heavy industrial sans faces (2010) have a textured style (Struktura), a Shadow, and a plain Roman.
• Maxim (2003, Profonts): The heavy brush face Maxim was originally designed by Peter Schneidler in 1956 for the Bauer foundry.
• New Bayreuth (2008): after Friedrich Hermann Ernst Schneidler's Bayreuth from 1932.
• Old Borders and Lines (2010). A free font.
• Ornella (2008): Jugendstil.
• Peter Schlemihl (2008, Profonts): a revival of a blackletter by Walter Tiemann.
• Pedell (2009): a casual script.
• Polo (2002): a brush face modeled after Carl Rudolph Pohl's Polo (1960).
• Fontforum Rhapsody (2006): a revival of Ilse Schüle's rotunda face.
• Roberta (2003): art nouveau face after obert Trogman's face for FotoStar.
• FontForum Signs and Symbols (2006).
• Splendor (2009): a revival of a brush script face by Wilhelm Berg, Schriftguss, 1930.
• Sportowy (2009): an outline face.
• Stanford (2011). A sports lettering face.
• Stiletto (2006): a medieval script.
• Fontforum Stripes (2007): a multistripe display face based on a Letraset version by the same name.
• Fontforum Thalia (2006): retro font.
• Tintoretto (2006): shadow display face.
• Tip Top Pro (2008): a Julius Klinkhardt art nouveau face revival.
• FontForum Unciala (2005): a revival of Oldrich Menhart's face Unciala (1953, Grafotechna).
• Unger Chancery (2005).
• Unger Script (2003): based on H. Matheis' Slogan typeface designed for Ludwig&Mayer in 1957.
• Veltro (2007): after a 1931 original by G. da Milano at Nebiolo.
• Profonts Woodpecker (2008).

• Amati Pro (2010): after Georg Trump's condensed didone face, Amati, 1951.
• Avus Pro (2012). A sans family that extends Gert Wunderlich's Maxima EF (1970).
• Bernhard Cursive Extra Bold (2010).
• Borgis Pro (2012). A Clarendon-sty;e text family.
• Brillant (2009): art nouveau and ultra heavy.
• Butti (2011). A script family paterned after Fluidum (1951, Alessandro Butti, Nebiolo).
• Caesar Pro (2011). A flared sans face after Caesar Schrift (1913, Georg Schiller, C.F. Rühl).
• Caslon Gotisch (2009): after the original by William Caslon from 1763.
• Celebration (2009): blackletter.
• Claudius (2010): after a 1937 blackletter font at Klingspor.
• Contact Pro (2010): after Contact, a 1963 font by Helmut Matheis.
• Eurotech Pro (2011): a slabby techno family.
• Faulkner Pro (2011): a connected heavy signage script based on Alan Meeks's Kestrel.
• Fette Unger Fraktur (2010).
• Forelle Pro (2010): after the original Forelle script face by Erich Mollowitz, 1936.
• Gmuender Gravur (2011). A 3d shadow face.
• Haenel Fraktur (2011), after Haenel Fraktur, ca. 1840 (Haenel'sche Letterfoundry in Berlin).
• Impuls (2010): a brushy face based on Paul Zimmermann's Impuls (1945).
• Jobs Gravure (2011). It had to happen---a few days after Steve Jobs' death, Unger released the beveled engraved face Jobs Gravure, which is an extension of Trump Gravur (1954, Weber).
• Jolly Polly (2012): a curly non-connected script face.
• Kleist Fraktur (2010): after Walter Tiemann's original.
• Leibniz Fraktur (2012) is modeled after the famous Genzsch & Heyse blackletter font.
• Lipsia Pro (2011). An angular serif family.
• Luxor Pro (2010): a Victorian/Western display face.
• Meister Antiqua (2011, +Bold, +Book). A Typoart original from 1951 in the tall flared ascender serif genre, revived and extended.
• Mobil Pro (2011). A semi-script face in the fifties style of Matheis.
• Monument (2010): a 3d shadow roman caps face created after Oldrich Menhart's Monument.
• Neue Kurier (2011). Typoart's popular signage script font in a new, completely remastered version.
• Neue Muenchner Fraktur (2010).
• Neue Thannhaeuser (2011).
• Old Towne Pro (2010): a Western font.
• Parler Gotisch (2011). A blackletter face.
• Prinzess Gravur (2010): a blackletter face modeled after Prinzeß Kupferstichschrift (1905, Berthold).
• Prisma Pro (2011). Revival and extension of Rudolf Koch's multiline face Prisma (1931).
• Reznicek Pro (2011) is a post-Victorian pre-art nouveau face named after Ferdinand von Reznicek (1868-1909), one of the leading artists and illustrators of those times.
• Ridinger Std (2012). Based on Riedingerschrift (Franz Riedinger, 1906, for Benjamin Krebs Succ.).
• Ronde Pro (2011): roundhand script.
• Schmale Anzeigenfraktur (2009): based on Koch's Schmale Deutsche Anzeigenschrift, 1923, Klingspor.
• Schmuckinitialen (2009): an ornamental caps face in the art nouveau style based on Walthari Initials [Walthari (1899, Heinz König for the Rudhard'sche Giesserei) in the upper case and Eckmann Initials (ca. 1900, by Otto Eckmann, Germany's chief art nouveau type designer) in the lower case].
• Titanschrift (2011). A yummy sof fat display face.
• Trocadero Pro (2010): an extension and revival of Trocadero Kursiv, 1927, Albert Auspurg, Trennert.
• Troubadour Pro (2010): In Medium and Engraved styles.
• Trump Deutsch (2011): a blackletter face, after the 1935 original by Georg Trump.
• Typoskript Pro (2010): a revival of Hildegard Korger's Typoskript, first done at TypoArt in 1968.
• Unger Fraktur (2010): after a 1793 design by Johann Friedrich Unger; includes fett and mager.
• Zentenar Fraktur (2010): mager and halbfett; after the 1937 workhorse by Ernst Schneidler at Bauer.
• Zierfraktur (2010): after Deutsche Zierschrift, an engraved blackletter font that was cut by Rudolf Koch between 1919 and 1921 for Klingspor.

Roos&Junge

German foundry established in 1886 and located in Offenbach. Acquired by D. Stempel in 1915. Typefaces include Teutonia (scan) and Offenbacher Reform (blackletter, ca. 1900). Teutonia is being reworked by Dan Reynolds as Teutonia Serif (2005) and/or Mountain. HiH made another revival in 2007, also called Teutonia. One of their art nouveau / Victorian faces, Mira, was digitized as Mira (2009, Tom Wallace). Komet is another art nouveau face, and Romanische Initialen is a decorative caps face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rudolph Gnichwitz

Type designer from Ashbourne, PA, who filed some designs with the US patent office. With Edwin C. Ruthven, he created an unnamed border type in 1889 for the Mather Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia. He made a curly Victorian face in 1890. In 1889, he made an art nouveau face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rupert Russell

Vendor of Australian school fonts including Victorian script fonts, a set of math fonts with many geometric shapes, and dotted outline fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map typography
[D.A. Sanborn]

Great Victorian and western style posters. Title pages, headings and letterforms clipped, cropped and isolated from maps and map publications issued between about 1880 and 1920. D. A. Sanborn, a young surveyor from Somerville, Massachusetts, was engaged in 1866 by the Aetna Insurance Company to prepare insurance maps for several cities in Tennessee. [..] Before working for Aetna, Sanborn conducted surveys and compiled an atlas of the city of Boston titled 'Insurance Map of Boston, Volume 1, 1867'. [..] The atlas includes twenty-nine large plates showing sections of Boston at the scale of 50 feet to an inch. It is believed to include the earliest insurance maps published by Sanborn. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sassy Rose's Graphics Garden (or: Sassy Graphics)
[Denise Clendenin]

Tens of original dingbat fonts made by Denise Clendenin (who is based in California) in 1998-1999: Americana, AmericanaTwo, ArtDeco, ArtNouveau1, ArtNouveau2, BirdsOne, BirdsTwo, Butterflies, CarouselHorses, CelticDesignsI, CelticDesignsII, CornersBorders, DecoBorders, DecoDividers, Designs1, Designs22, Designs3, DividersMisc, Ellipses, FancyFish, FloraDeco, Flowers1, Flowers2, Flowers3, Flowers4, FolkArt, FolkArt2, FolkArtDividers, FunFish, IndianDesigns, JapaneseDesigns, MoreRoses, RosesRoses, Sealife, Ships, TeddyBears, TeddyBears2, VictorianDesignsOne, VictorianDesignsThree, VictorianDesignsTwo, Wildflowers1, Wildflowers2. Excellent quality, smooth outlines.

Fontspace link. Dafont link. Catalog. Old dead URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Schriftgiesserei Flinsch

Foundry in Frankfurt am Main. House faces include Enge Antiqua (1859), Renaissance Kanzlei (also known as Antike Kanzlei), Verzierte Musirte Gotisch (ca. 1870, digitally revived by Gerhard Henzel), Flinsch-Germanisch (1876, blackletter by Karl Klimsch), Magere Kloster-Gotisch (ca. 1900), Neugotisch (1907), Universal-Gotisch (ca. 1900), Bernhard-Fraktur (1913, plus Extrafette), Dürer-Gotisch (ca. 1900), Flinsch-Fraktur, aka Frankfurter Fraktur (1911), Tages Antiqua (1915), Flinsch-Privat (1919, by Lucian Bernhard), Halbfette Schwabacher-Flinsch (which was used for titling in the Fehsenfeld editions of the Karl-May books; a digital revival at Gerhard Helzel's place), Breite halbfette Roemisch, Elzevier Initialen, Fette Mikado, Franconia, Jenson, Langschrift, Patent reclame, Reclame, Samson, and Victoria. Their Book of Type Specimens (1904) has 719 pages. An earlier book from 1899, Einundzwanzigstes Fortsetzungs-Heft 1899 has just 70 pages. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Scriptorium (Ragnarok Press, Fontcraft)
[David Fleming Nalle]

Dave Nalle was born in Beirut in 1959, but lives and works in Texas. He is currently in Manor, TX. From his wiki page: Dave Nalle is a political writer, game author and font designer who was active in the early history of the development of the internet. He is Chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus, a group that promotes libertarianism within the Republican Party and is Senior Politics Editor at Blogcritics online magazine and is the CEO of Scriptorium Fonts. A creative and prolific designer, he has made hundreds of beautiful (often historic) fonts. His outfit, Scriptorium (based near Austin, TX, est. 1989), also does custom font and logo design. At some points, Scriptorium was also known as Ragnarok Press and Fontcraft. It specializes in artsy and ancient faces. Some subset of the fonts is made by Michael Scarpitti. Free font demos.

Images of his best selling fonts. Special subpages:

• Three free fonts: Onuava (a mini-serifed hybrid fixed-width font), Divona (sans), Sirona (based on Lombardic calligraphy).
• Decorative initials such as the 20th century sign lettering initials set Pencraft Initials (2009), Holly Initials (2010, based on Real PenWork (1880s, Knowles and Maxim), Vyones (2010), Vergennes (2001), Cascade (2009), Bergling (2010; based on initials by John M. Bergling).
• Wild West fonts: Academy, Atkinson Boomtown (2009, after the lettering of Frank Atkinson), Atkinson Eccentric (2009), BigIron, Cibola, Lachesis, Perdido, Plowright, Primer, Riudoso, Niederwald, San Lorenzo (2011, with a Mexican and Tuscan look), Stonehouse, Manquo, Rochambeau, Purcell, Vaquero.
• Arabic simulation fonts: Samaritan is based on the poster lettering of Alphons Mucha from his poster for the play La Samaritan. Serendib and Waziri are based on the hand lettering of René Bull from his edition of the Arabian Nights. Caliph is derived from Ernst Schneidler's classic Legende font, with variant characters based on his original lettering. And there is also Samarkand.
• Celtic fonts: the fonts include the Durrow font (1993, traditional rendering of Insular Minuscule calligraphy), Malvern, Glendower (based on the most common lettering in the Book of Kells), Knotwork (caps based on Celtic knots), Alba Text (modernized text font based on Celtic uncial lettering), Lindisfarne (based on a square uncial style), Stonecross (1997, derived from Celtic cross and gravestone inscriptions), Celtic Spirals (dingbats), Celtic Borders font (lets you combine key strokes to form decorative borders; many frames and borders are original Celtic designs by Arts&Crafts period artists like Evelyn Paul and Louis Rhead), Spiral Initials, Brigida (based on Rudolph Koch's interpretation of a squared uncial), Coverack (heavy non-traditional uncial), Dahaut (modernized uncial), Morgow (1999, spiral uncial), Teyrnon (elaborate spurred uncial), Padstow (heavy uncial), Vafthrudnir (2011, uncial), Sualtim and Columba (decorative initials based on characters found in the Book of Kells), Albemarle (2001).
• Oriental simulation fonts: Yoshitoshi (2003, based on the 1900-style writing by Yoshi Toshi.
• Gothic fonts, including Alt Gothic, Koch Gothic, Barnabas (2011), Montgisard (2010, roman capitals with blackletter lower case), Montressor (2010, ornamental blackletter capitals), T4C Beaulieux (1998, a free copy here), Bastarda (2011), Burgundian, Cadeaulx, Collins OE, Cortrai, Ereshkigal, Franconian, Froissart, Ghost Gothic, Magdeburg, Melusine, Monressor (2010, blackletter caps), Pyle Gothic, Rheingold, Sanctum, Stuttgart Gothic (2010), Textura, Theodoric, Yngling (2002).
• Renaissance fonts: Monumental Gothic, Caswallon, humanistic cursive (Palmieri, Castiglione and Hanes Italic), quirky Italian cursives (Fiorenza and Alleghieri), a Roman style hand-lettered font (Rudolfo and Rudolfo Swash), a Trajan-style Roman lettering (Hadrianus), a classic flourished cursive (Trinculo) and a set of floral intials from the Quattrocento (Fraticelli).
• Modern poster fonts: Ascelon, Bilitis, Cosmic Dude, Dromon, Ducatus Rough, Eglantine, Ekberg, Fortinbras, Hamilton, Jambon, Oblivion, Posada (2008, based on the poster lettering of Mexican artist José Guadalupe Posada), Squiffy, Suspicion, Magnin (2003).
• Mapmaker fonts: building elements are available in Basilica; Ortelius is a map dingbat font; Queensland (based on lettering by artist and calligrapher Eric Sloane), is bold, hand-drawn and reminiscent of medieval writing on maps. There are also Brandywine, Windlass (1996), and Cityscape. Orford (2008) is based on samples of hand lettering from a 1693 manuscript collected by Lewis Day in his classic book on historical paleography, Alphabets Old and New.
• Calligraphic fonts: Albemarle (2001), Azariel, Moncrief (2011, based on the calligraphy of J.M. Bergling), Pavane, Rasael (2009), Abdiel (2005), Roncesvalles, Gazardiel (2003, connected script), Spoonbill (2003, arts and crafts), Maacteris (Roman uncial font), Antioch Uncial (Roman uncial font), Burgundian (Classic black letter font), Franconian (Classic black letter font), Castiglione (Attractive Renaissance lettering), Cicero (Roman Rustica font), Formidable (1993, very bold late medieval / Lombardic style), Collins Old English (Classic Old English style gothic), Corbei Uncial (Roman uncial font), Cymbeline (late medieval lettering), Durrow (Standard insulur minuscule uncial font), Theodoric (Classic black letter font), Ghost Gothic (Unusual gothic font), Glendower (Uncial font based on Book of Kells), Gloriana (Interesting hand lettering style), Folkard (from the hand-lettering of Charles Folkard), Art deco faces: Borealis (2009), Criterion (2011), Illuminata, Madding (2009, a bold poster font that grew out of Aventine), Alexandrine (2009), art Deco Stencil (2009, based on samples of Art Deco stencil lettering by Pedro Lemos), Falmouth.
• Art nouveau faces: Acadian, Agravain (2009), Amphitryon (2009), Ariosto, Asphodel, Beaumains (2011, based on J.M. Bergling's lettering), Beauvoir, Belgravia (based on J.M. Bergling), Bernhardt (based upon the lettering of the Czech art-nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha), Bentham, Berenicia, Boetia (2003, based on J.M. Bergling's lettering), Bruges, Bucephalus (1993), Burd Ellen (2009), Butterfield, Curetana, Elsene (2011, based on lettering by early 20th century illustrator Clara Elsene Peck), Elysian, Flaubert, Gaheris, Ganelon, Goodfellow, Harbinger, Jugendstil Kunsthand (2003), Lysander, Maginot, Munich (after the Munchner Jugend magazine), Norumbega, Odeon, Ormandine (2010), Pantagruel, Phaeton, Reggio, Rochmbeau, Rockne (2009), Rudolfo, Setebos, Sprite, Summerisle, Sylphide (2005), Undine, Valentin (2008), Vambrace (2010), Walhal.
• Arabian-look fonts: Caliph, Satampra, Serendib, Jerash, Samaritan, Samarkand, Waziri.
• Interview and bio.
• Latest designs.
• Myfonts link.
• Mass download of most Scriptorium demo fonts at Fontflood.
• Modern poster fonts: Field Day (2003), Ascelon, Bilitis, Cosmic Dude, Dromon, Ducatus Rough, Eglantine, Ekberg, Fortinbras, Hamilton, Jambon, Oblivion, Squiffy.
• Constructivist fonts: Krasny Mir (2009), Vrubel, Structura (1997).
• Futuristic fonts: Alecto, Angelus, Circuit, Culdrose, Gearhead, Ironclaw, Parika, Sanhedrin, Semiramis (1997), Slither, Structuro, Yazata, Adastra (dings).
• Borders and ornaments. These include New Arets and Crafts Borders (20912, based on The Calendar of Golden Thoughts (Barse and Hopkins Publ, 1911).
• Boneyard fonts: Antrobus (2010), Sepultura (2002), Halloweenies, Dementia, Boneyard, Skull and Bones, Malagua, Paleos (2002, from titling of B movies in the cave girl genre), Carmilla, Abaddon, Black Cow (1998), Valdemar, Cuede, Ligeia, Mayhem, Mephisto, Golgotha, Sanguinary, Ironworks, Moravia, Gehenna, Nosegrind (2005, graffiti), Corpus, Ghostly.
• School fonts: Schoolhand (2010).
• Arts and Crafts movement (late Victorian period, 19th century), based on work and lettering by Walter Crane, William Morris, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Elbert Hubbard. The Arts&Crafts movement was enormously influential on the works of designers, artists and architects of the 20th century, and inspired the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements. Fonts include William Morris' Kelmscott (based on Morris' Troy type), and True Golden, fonts from the Glasgow branch of the movement like Chelsea Studio (1997), which is based on Charles Rennie Mackintosh's lettering, fonts from the Roycrofters of New York like Semiramis and Ganelon, fonts based on Walter Crane's work such as Crane Gothic, Pencraft Initials (2009) and Walter Crane, and even fonts from the California Arts&Crafts period of the early 1900s like Coloma. Other typefaces: Aylward, Palmyra (based on work by the Roycrofters, a design community founded by Elbert Hubbard), Aylward (2010, Victorian), Hyacinth Initials, Spoonbill, Adresack (1996), Brandywine, Changeling (2009, based on lettering by fairy artist Fanny Railton), Ganelon, Goddard, and Advertising Gothic (2003), Valentin, Gaheris, Agravain (2009). Delaguerra (2001-2009) is based on a lettering style originating in the California Arts&Crafts period commonly associated with Mission Style. It is still in common usage in signage at historical sites in California.
• Medieval fonts of Scriptorium, critiqued by Marc Smith, page 65: Batwynge is based on lettre gffe by Geofroy Tory (1529), and not on an illuminated manuscript of the tenth century as claimed by Scriptorium.

Klingspor link. Dafont link.

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Scrowleyfonts
[Tanya Davis]

Tanya Davis (Scrowleyfonts) is a ttype designer in Shrewsbury, UK (b. 1966). Her typefaces:

• From 2010: the monoline sans face Tatty (free at Dafont).
• From 2011: the rounded monoline sans family Decorum, the upright connected script family Cursive Script, the curly semi-Victorian ornamental face Argentile (image), the ornamental face Stomp, the art deco family Raffles (+Black, + Open), the cake writing face Sugar Medley (image), and the wacky Quibble Rough (2011).
• From 2012: Bluegrass, Scrawl Cursive.

MyFonts link.

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Skeldale House Treasures
[Robyn Phillips]

This site used to have shareware dingbats by Missi (Robyn Phillips from Cascade, Montana). For a short while, it was a commercial site featuring 246 fonts on one CD for 49USD. And some time after that, it shut down altogether. However, the fonts will forever be floating around in cyberspace. Fontspace link.

The font names start with Ryp or ryp, and with that prefix omitted, we have: Abctrain, Animal, Aquatic, Bars 1, Birds 1, Buildings, Butterfly 1+2, Button 1-4, Caps Fonts (60 faces !), Cartoon Bugs, Cats 1 + 2, Children 1-3, China Art (11 faces), Christmas 1-4, Christmas Bells, Christmas Caps, Deco 1-20, Element 1+2, Evil 1, Facets 1, Fat 1, Fiesta 1+2, Floral 1-11, Frames 1+2, Geometrics, Greek Vases 1+2, Halloween 1, Hats 1+2, Hearts 1, Jewels 1-4, Keys 1+2, Kokopelli Flute, Ladies Hats 1+2, Leaves 1, Lighthouse 1, Nature 1, Nymphic, Old Wood Cuts 1-6, 10-14, Old World Art 1-4, Ornate 1-7, Pipes 1+2, Quilt 1-10, Real Bugs, Ropes 1+2, Santa 1+2, Scarey, Snowflake 1-8 (image of Snowflake 1 and of Snowflake 3), Silhouette 1-20, Thanksgiving, Transportation 1-3, Trees, Victorian 1-3. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Slip Studios
[Stephen Farrell]

Slip Studios is Stephen Farrell's outfit in Chicago. He designed Volgare (75USD) based on Renaissance merchant handwriting from 1601. Apparently, he worked for four years on this. He is also the [T-26] designer of Commonworld (1994), Entropy, Flexure, IndelibleVictorian, Missive, Osprey (1993), Riot. Bio. At Plazm, he published Flexure (1993). MyFonts sells Osprey, Flexure and Missive. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

SoftMaker Software GmBH (now: freefont.de)
[Martin Kotulla]

SoftMaker, Martin Kotulla's German foundry in Nürnberg, is selling the 10,000-TrueType font Megafont XXL CD (50 USD, www.megafont.de). Every month, a different font or font family (TT and T1) is given away for free. The MegaFont XXL has most standard Monotype/Adobe/Linotype families (up to 1995/1996). They say that most fonts are licensed from URW++ and Brendel Informatik (Cologne). Contents of MegaFont XXL's predecessor, MegaFont Profi CD, here. Since early 2001, you can download one font family from the CD MegaFont XXL here. Martin Kotulla also started infiniType, a collection of 5050 fonts at a good price (Mac and PC). The XXL series has character sets for Western and Central European languages, Turkish, and Celtic, and comes with many expert sets. For historical accuracy: older packages by Softmaker include the 3333-font (TT and T1) MegaFont Profi CD-2.0 (99DM), the 5000-font MegaFont Euro (50 Euro), the Truepack Profi-CD and the 500-font TypeMaker 5.0 Profi-Pack (10DM).

Their early fonts were renamed and had the attribute Serial in the name. Samples of some of these fonts/families: Melbourne Serial, Nashville Serial (+Heavy), Nevada Serial, On Stage Serial, Ornitons Serial, Penthouse Serial, Plakette Serial, Priamos Serial, Quadrat Serial, Quebec Serial, Riccione Serial, Rochester Serial, Salzburg Serial, Stafford Serial, Sunset Serial, Sydney Serial, Thames Serial, Toledo Serial, Valencia Serial (Heavy), Valencia Serial (Xlight), Verona Serial, Volkswagen Serial, Wichita Serial.

In 2008, SoftMaker started selling fonts on MyFonts: fonts there include the 28-style Suetterlin family (2008), based on the handwriting taught in German schools in the first half of the 20th century, Harald Handwriting (2009), Agilo Handwriting (2009), Wally Handwriting (2009), Vittorio Handwriting (2009), Turandot Handwriting (2009), Tommi Handwriting (2009), Veneto Handwriting (2009), Tolomeo Handwriting (2009), Sarx Handwriting (2009), Salew Handwriting (2009), Roxana Handwriting (2009), Renate Handwriting (2009), PizPaz Handwriting (2009, Mexican style), Schneid Handwriting (2009), Pietro Handwriting, Phil Handwriting, Nadine Handwriting, Kuno Handwriting, Larissa Handwriting, Lizzy Handwriting, Juri Handwriting, Jeff Handwriting (2009), Josh Handwriting (2009), Jelena Handwriting (2009), Jaro Handwriting (2009), Jacques Handwriting (2009), Hilly Handwriting (2009), Harico Handwriting (2009), Hakon Handwriting (2009), Stone Handwriting (2009), Federico Handwriting (2009), Fabio Handwriting (2009), Emmi Handwriting (2009), Davio Handwriting (2009), Alec Handwriting (2009), Brian Handwriting (2009), Armand Handwriting (2009), Claude Handwriting (2010), Cathy Handwriting (2010), Clay Handwriting (2010), Danielle Handwriting (2010), Feliks Handwriting (2010), Foster Handwriting (2010), Giorgio Handwriting (2010), Giovanna Handwriting (2010), Guga Handwriting (2010), Giuliano Hanriting (2010), Carlo Handwriting (2009), Brouet Handwriting (2010), Bjarne Handwriting (2009), Agnieszka Handwriting (2009) and Thery Handwriting (2009).

Additions in 2010: Tabasco (a geometric based on the phototype font by John Schaedler), Tabasco Twin (a bilined face after John Schaedler's Paprika), Advertisers Gothic (a revival of a 1917 face by Robert Wiebking), Ad Lib (a revival of a quirky 1961 face by Freeman Craw for ATF), Accent (brush face), Flagstaff (oblique techno face), Cornered (with angular pieces), Abilene (Western; caps only), Comix, Cathedral Open (nice open face), Boa Script (2010), Bryce (2010, brush script), Brush Script (2010, after the original ATF font by Robert E. Smith from 1942), Bernhard Fashion (2010), Abbott Old Style (2010, after a 1901 semi-Victorian font by Joseph W. Phinney), Artistic (2010, after Ariston, a 1933 face by Martin Wilke), Elegant Script (2010, a revival of Berthold's Englische Schreibschrift), Garamond Serial (2011), the Suetterlin family.

The typefaces remastered in 2012 include Chandler Pro (this is Rofer Excoffon's 1955 brush face Choc; see also Staccato 555 by Bitstream and Chalk by Corel), Cheltenham Pro, Cleargothic Pro (after Morris Fuller Benton's flared version of Clearface, Clearface Gothic, 1907), Cooper Black Pro (+Stencil), Tioga Script Pro (after Georg Trump's 1956 script by that name, but aka Time Script).

Free download:

• Huntington-Bold.ttf [-> Handel Gothic]
• Huntington-Light.ttf
• ImperialStd-Bold.ttf [-> URW Imperial]
• ImperialStd-BoldItalic.ttf
• ImperialStd-Heavy.ttf
• ImperialStd-HeavyItalic.ttf
• ImperialStd-Italic.ttf
• ImperialStd-Medium.ttf
• ImperialStd-MediumItalic.ttf
• ImperialStd-Regular.ttf
• ImperialStd-Xbold.ttf
• ImperialStd-XboldItalic.ttf
• KremlinScript-Bold.ttf [-> Kuenstler Script]
• RaleighSerial-Bold.ttf
• RaleighSerial-Heavy.ttf
• RaleighSerial-Regular.ttf
• Scott.ttf [-> Stop]
• TiogaScript-Bold.ttf [-> Time Script]
• TiogaScript-Light.ttf
• TiogaScript-Medium.ttf

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Solotype
[Dan X. Solo]

Dover Press sells Oakland's Dan X. Solo's digitizations. Dan Solo (b. 1928) has collected over 13,000 sets of metal fonts, starting when he was 9 years old and growing up in Oakland, CA. Finally, in 2002, he stopped doing that and began converting all of his fonts to computer type. He printed 30 books on fonts (with Dover), [including The solotype catalog of 4,147 display typefaces] and created hundreds of fonts. In 2007, he retired from the font business.

Robert Trogman writes: I know Dan X. Solo personally. He ran a typographic studio in Berkeley for over 30 years. He had a large collection of film fonts, including some of my own. He created thousands of fonts and is now retired and is an avocational prestigitator. Copyrights have run out on most of his fonts. He also protected himself by creating pseudonyms on the questionable font names. Stuart Sandler confirms that many of the fonts in Solo's Dover books are in fact from the Filmotype collection, which Stuart is digitizing right now.

Gene Gable writes: Dan Solo of Solotype in Berkeley was experimenting with photo type as early as 1945 and started doing optical special effects in the early '60s. And a number of the larger display-type shops developed their own techniques. But in terms of opening up new markets for display type (and giving designers more control over type setting), Visual Graphics and Letraset lead the way. These companies were proud of, and promoted, the fact that that their products could be used by non-typesetters with little training.

MyFonts sells these faces under the name Solotype (the company is in Alameda, CA): Acantha, Assay, Baraboo Banner, Beijing, Bindweed, Brevet, Brussels, Cathedral, Cleopatra, Cognac, Crossroads, Dainty Lady, Dangerfield, Diablo, Dime Museum, Dutch Treat, Egyptian Oldstyle, Excelsis, Extravaganza, Grecian, Lord Mayor, Malibu, Minnesota, Moulin Rouge, Penny Arcade, Rigney, Trixie, Valerie, Zorro.

Bio. Bio.

He writes about himself: Dan X. Solo The Solotype Archive was begun in 1942 when I was 14. I was a kid printer for several years before that. At 16, after a quick three months of training, I dropped out of school and went to work full time as a radio actor and announcer in San Francisco. (Easy to get jobs in those days, due to the war-induced manpower shortage.) In 1949 and 1950, I created a magic show which played West Coast theatres with some success. After that, back to broadcasting. By 1962, I was completely burned out on radio, so I decided to see if I could make a living with my collection of antique types, which numbered about a thousand fonts at that time. In 1962, I sent out 4,000 catalogs showing the type to ad agencies all over the U.S. The timing was perfect (no thanks to me) because there was developing at that time a renewed interest in the old types. Business took off immediately. The Solotype collection was one of four commercial collections at the time, but I seemed to have been more aggressive in marketing than the other chaps. (Well, Morgan Press certainly knew how to market.) Two years into the business, I began to collect alphabets on paper for conversion to photo lettering, which was just becoming mainstream in the type business. We closed the shop for a month every year and went on a type hunt, mostly in Europe where there didn't seem to be much competition among collectors. Other typographers couldn't understand how we could do this, but I believe it made people appreciate the resource we offered even more. Over the years, the collection became quite large. When I closed Solotype a couple of years ago, I got rid of about half the archive (because the fonts were dull, or already digitized, or for a variety of other reasons) leaving me with about 6,000 fonts on paper or film. In 1974, I began to supply Dover Publications with mechanicals for books of 100 alphabets on a particular theme. I did 30 of these books over the years, and 30 more of printers' ornaments, borders, and so forth. Sometime in the 1990s, Dover asked me to digitize books of 24 fonts each, to be sold with a disk in the back. I did 12 of these. The Dover relationship came to an end when Haywood Cirker, the owner and my special friend, died and the company was sold to another publisher. Dover felt that they had covered the type field thoroughly. Now in my old age, my wife and I have a mindreading act that is great fun and good for the ego. Even so, when not traveling, I digitize type for relaxation and enjoyment, but have made no effort to sell it. Until now.

A list of some digitized fonts:

• Art Deco: Advertisers Gothic Light, Alex, Beverly Hills, Boul Mich, Cabaret (2003, as in Murder She Wrote), Capone Light, Chic, Clyde, Eagle Bold, Eagle Narrow, Eden Bold, Eden Light, French Flash, Gallia, Graybar Book, Grock, Matra, Modernique, Parasol, Parisian, Phoenix American, Plaza Suite, Publicity Gothic, Salut, Stymie Obelisk, Zeppelin.
• Victorian: Anglo, Arboret, Campanile, Chorus Girl, Fancy Celtic, Ferdinand, Floral Latin, Glorietta, Grant Antique, Gutenberg, Hogarth, Jagged, Katherine Bold, Lafayette, Meisteringer, Olympian, Phidian, Ringlet (1998, a Victorian face after an 1882 original by Hermann Ihlenburg), Romanesque, Rubens, Stereopticon, Templar, Wedlock, Zinco.
• Script/Cursive: Amapola, Artists Script, Carpenters Script, Certificate Script, Commercial Script, Conway (an architectural script), Elegance, Engrossing Script, Figaro, Flare, Gloria Script, Hanover, Helvetica Cursive, Holly, Kunsteler Bold, Liberty, Manuscript, Orion Script, Pantagraph Script (+No2, +No3), Park Avenue, Romany Script, Trafton Script, Typo Upright, University Script, Virginia Antique.
• Art Nouveau: Ambrosia, Argus, Artistik, Auriol, Baldur, Bocklin, Carmen, Childs, Edda Black, Excelsior, Francomia, Giraldon, Harrington, Isadora, Metropolitan, Murillo, Oceana, Odessa, Orbit Antique, Palmetto (2005; based on a 1887 face called Palm from the A.D. Farmer Foundry), Siegfried, Skjald, Spartana, Titania.
• Gothic/Medieval: Academy Text, American Uncial, Antique Black, Becker Bold, Bradley, Castlemar, Celebration Text Fancy, Church Text, Engravers Old English, Frederick Text, Freehand, Hingham Text, Initials-Bradley and Caxton, Kanzlei Light, Lautenbach, Lautenbach Fancy Caps, Libra, Morris Black, Nicholini Broadpen, Rhapsodie Swash Caps, Scottford Uncial, Solemnis, Washington Text, Wedding Text.
• Celtic: Anglo Text, Camden Text, Chappel Text, Cimbrian, Colchester Black, Durer Gothic, Durwent, Fenwick, Genzsch Initials, Gloucester Initials, Gutenberg Gothic, Hansa Gothic, Harrowgate, Kaiser Gothic, Kings Cross, Konisburg, Malvern, Medici Text, Middlesex, Progressive Text, Tudor Text, Warwick, Westminster Gothic, Yonkers.
• Special-Effects Display Fonts: Azteca Condensed, Buddha (oriental simulation face, after a Schelter&Giesecke type), Burst, Campaign (1970), Chinatown (oriental simulation), Cigar Label (1997-2002), Colonial Dame, Contract Banner (2004, a take on Mezzotint from 1880)Direction, Fillet, Filmstar (1999), Firebug, Headhunter, Hollywood Lights, Igloo Solid, Import, Lariat, Needlepoint, Old Glory, Protest, Rustic, Scimitar (Arabic simulation face), Scoreboard, Skyline, Starburst, Sundown Shadow, Tableau, Tonight, Xerxes.

The Solotype Catalog is a file with information on Dan Solo's typefaces, annotated with remarks about name equivalences and digitizations. The original file was due to Thibaudeau, but typophiles on alt.binaries.fonts have added to it in 2010. PDF version. Excel version. Text version.

Images of other selected typefaces: Agency Gothic, Alpha Midnight, Alpha Twilight, Anita Lightface (1977), Art Deco Display Alphabets, Ashley Crawford, Ashley Inline, Astur, Bamberg, Banco, Beans, Blackline, Bobo Bold, Braggadocio, Broadway Engraved, Busorama Bold, Busorama Light, Bust, Charger, Checkmate, Colonel Hoople, Corral, Dudley P Narrow, Dynamo, Earth, Eclipse, Empire, Ewie, Fat Cat, Fatso, Festival, Futura Black, Futura Inline, Gillies Gothic Bold, Greeting Monotone, Grooviest Gothic, Hess Neobold, Hotline, Huxley Vertical, Inkwell Black, Joanna Solotype, Joyce Black, Koloss, Lampoon, Mania, Mania Contour A, Mania Contour B, Margit, Mindy Highlight, Modernistic, Monograms Stencil, Mossman, Neon, Neuland (+Inline), Phosphor, Piccadilly, Pickfair, Polly, Prismania P, Quote, Rhythm Bold, Shady Deal, Sheet Steel, Sinaloa. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Solotype Fonts at MyFonts.com

Dan X. Solo's Solotype fonts are now being sold at MyFonts. These wood type/Western/ headline/ Victorian collection includes Acantha, Bindweed, Dime Museum, Egyptian Oldstyle, Excelsis, Extravaganza, Rigney, Assay, Baraboo Banner, Beijing, Brevet, Brussels, Cathedral, Cleopatra, Cognac, Crossroads, Dainty Lady, Dangerfield, Diablo, Dutch Treat, Grecian, Lord Mayor, Malibu, Minnesota, Moulin Rouge, Penny Arcade, Trixie, Valerie, and Zorro. Alaska is based on an 1890 design of Marder, Luse and co. Arcade imitates an 1888 design of Barnhart Brothers&Spindler. Bamboo (oriental simulation face) is based on a 1889 creation of Barnhart Brothers&Spindler. Behrens Antiqua and Behrens schrift are revival of early 20th century faces by Peter Behrens. Eccentric is a digitization of a 1898 face by Kingsley/ATF. Hansard is a revival of a display type published in 1887 by MacKellar, Smiths,&Jordan. Pekin is a digitization of a face, first designed by Ernst Lauschke in 1888 and issued by Barnhart Bros.&Spindler foundry in Chicago under the name Dormer, and revived by them in 1923 under the name Pekin. Charles Henry Beeler made a condensed sans serif issued by Mackellar, Smiths&Jordan foundry in 1887: it was digitally revived as Roundhead. Monument is a revival of a 1893 face by the Boston Type Foundry, but was also cast at the Central Type Foundry. Vienna Light is a delicate early 1900s type originally created by the German foundry of Schelter&Gieseke. Other designs: Bareback, Campaign (ca. 1970), Cigar Label (1997), Estienne, Farringdon (a western face), Goodfellow (digitization of wood type from 1895 found at Hamilton and probably due to W.H. Page), Harlem Text (blackletter), Houdini (ca. 1992), Memorial, Quadrille 2 (a simplified Tuscan face), Sparticus, Vanities (a Victorian type), Whirligig. In 2005, MyFonts added Margie (formal script based on Marggraff Bold Script by the Dresden foundry vormalig Brüder Butter, 1920s), Fancy Dan, Bamberg, Fat Face No. 20, French Ionic (quite ugly--based on an 1870 Clarendon derivative by the Cincinnati Type Foundry), Hearst Italic (based on a 1904 face by Carl Schraubstadter of the Inland Type Foundry), Hearst Roman (based on a face from the Inland Type Foundry allegedly stolen from a hand lettering job done by Goudy, acccording to Goudy himself), Tally Text (early photolettering type of the comic book style), Welcome 1 (based on Van Loey-Nouri's art nouveau face from 1900). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Spiece Graphics
[Jim Spiece]

Based in Fort Wayne, IN, Jim Spiece likes to revive old type designs. FontShop link.

The typefaces made Jim Spiece:

• Adonis Old Style SG: after a little stationery and greeting card typeface developed for American Type Founders in 1930 by Willard T. Sniffin.
• Anthology SG (2005).
• Arched Gothic Condensed: another Victorian type, developed around 1885 by the James Conners&Son Foundry (New York).
• Ark Monogram SG: Ark is a combination monogram set based on the ATF Virkotype designi from the 1930s.
• Asteroid Primo SG (2009).
• Astoria Antique (2003): 19th century style ornamental face.
• Aviator SG (1995), aka Ventura Slim, based on an old 1930s lettering style popularized by Carl Holmes in his book.
• Bernhard Brushscript SG: based on an extremely heavy informal script was created in the early 1920s by Lucian Bernhard.
• Bernhard Gothic SG
• Beverly Shores Script SG (2004).
• Birdlegs SG (1991).
• Cactus Flower SG (2006): a Wild West family based on lettering by Ross F. George.
• California Poster SG (1996).
• Centric Geo SG (1996) and Centric Serif SG (1996). These are squarish slab faces.
• Concerto Rounded SG: revival of some 1920s Lucian Bernhard lettering.
• Edison Swirl: A frilly Victorian blackletter face based on a design by Hermann Ihlenburg from ca. 1900.
• El Castillo SG (2008): an old style newsprint family.
• Epicerie One&Two SG (2008): a signage family.
• Eva SG. Eva Antiqua is an exquisite family based on the 1922 Klingspor model by German designer Rudolf Koch (known as Koch Antiqua or Locarno). It also includes EvaParamountSG.
• Frisco Antique Display SG (2004): based on a woodtype display face from the 1880s by Bruce Type Foundry.
• Gable Antique Condensed (2002): based on a Bauer Type Foundry art nouveau face.
• Gambit Nouveau SG (2004): art nouveau.(2004): art nouveau.
• Grand Slam SG (2002): based on an old cardwriting style known as Poster Gothic.
• Headline Helpers One SG and Headline Helpers Two SG (2009).
• Hollywood Deco SG (1994): based on a Willard T. Sniffin deco-inspired original from 1932.
• ITC Blair (1997)
• ITC Deli Deluxe and ITC Deli Supreme (1999)
• ITC New Winchester
• Ironman SG (2002): art deco poster font.
• Kingsbury Condensed SG (1992): 1930s style art deco face.
• Kolinsky Sable SG (2004): a brush display face due to Charles P. Bluemlein, 1944.
• Little Brown Frog SG (2007).
• Melrose Modern SG (2005): art deco family.
• Memorandum SG (1992): a sans text family.
• Metropolis SG: revival of a long-legged 1932 classic design by W. Schwerdtner for the Stempel Foundry.
• Mingo Gothic SG (1991-1992).
• Narcissus SG (Open and Solid): Narcissus Open is a heavy typeface designed by Walter Tiemann in 1921 for the Klingspor Foundry in Germany.
• Newport Classic Basic SG and Newport Classic SG: based on an extra condensed art deco typeface designed by Willard T. Sniffin for American Type Founders in 1932.
• Nicolas Jenson SG: a large text family about which Spiece writes: It was the original work of fifteenth century designer Nicolas Jenson that formed the basis for this roman serif style developed by Ernst Detterer in 1923. Similar in spirit to other early twentieth century revivals such as Centaur, Cloister Old Style, and Italian Old Style, Nicolas Jenson is distinguished by its pristine and delicate nature. A gifted young apprentice to Detterer, Robert Hunter Middleton, greatly expanded the family. And by 1929, bold, italic, and open were part of the Ludlow Foundry's beautiful Nicolas Jenson Series. It was reintroduced under a new name, Eusebius, in 1941.
• Nova Script Recut One SG (2011): based on Nova Script (1937, George F. Trenholm).
• Pacific Clipper SG (1991): a mix between Koch's kabel and ATF's Novel Gothic (1929, Morris Fuller Benton and Charles H. Becker).
• Panorama SG (1995): art deco family, based on an old 1930s lettering style popularized by Carl Holmes is his wonderful book on the subject.
• Quaint Gothic: Arts&Crafts face.
• Samson Classic SG: a heavy display face based on a 1940 design by Robert Hunter Middleton for the Ludow Foundry.
• San Remo Casual SG: a fifties style connected script.
• Sheridan Gothic SG: an art nouveayu face, ca. 1910, known as Grant Antique.
• Speedway SG (1992-1993): connected upright 1950s diner script.
• Stellar Classic SG (1997): Stellar was originally designed by by Robert Hunter Middleton in 1929 as a serifless roman well before Hermann Zapf's Optima, released in 1958.
• Stratosphere SG (1993).
• Telepod SG (2002): based on an old Speedball lettering style and has a very retro look.
• Thumbnail Text SG (2005).
• Travel Kit SG (2004): art deco.
• Tribunus SG: roman Trajanus style family, originally designed in 1939 by Warren Chappell for Stempel.
• Tweed SG (1992): handlettering.
• Ultramodern Classic SG: a marquee lettering font family in the style of Broadway. Based on a 1928 design by Douglas C. McMurtrie, Aaron Borad, and Leslie Sprunger.
• Valentina SG (1991-1992): a plump comic book style script.
• Veranda Poster SG: derived from a European art supply manufacturer's logotype done in the Vienna (Wien) Austria style, which was used by artists such as Julius Klinger and Willy Willrab in the 1920s.
• Wellsbrook Initials SG: based on the 1920s work at Bauer of the German graphic designer Emil Rudolf Weiss.
• Zinc Italian (2002): 19th century style curly ornamental face, aka Zinco in the Victorian era.

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Stefan Krömer

Cofounder (b. 1975, Bueckeburg) and type designer at Typonauten, a Bremen-based commercial font foundry started in 1998. MyFonts page. Creator of SingapurFlash, SingapurHeavy, SingapurHeavyColor, SingapurLight, SingapurLightExpert, SingapurWords in 2003, a collection of dingbats and fun scripts. Codesigner in 2005 with Ingo Krepinsky of Toon Town (2005, a comic book face). Creator of the grotesk family Sheffield (2003) and of the Cyrillic simulation font Dimitri (2001). In 2006, he added the Witchfinder family (2006), which has handwritten scripts, and fonts for alchemy, astrology, icons, demons, and necronomicons. In 2007, he codesigned the brush font series BMovie Retro with Ingo Krepinsky and Florian Schick. Creator (with Gunnar Link and Ingo Krepinsky) of Royal Oak Decor (Victorian ornaments), Royal Oak Sans (Edwardian headline sans) and Royal Oak Serif (Western headline face). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Stereo Type Haus
[Rick D. Granados]

Stereo Type Haus (or STH) is a commercial foundry in Brooklyn, NY, est. 2000, offering fonts by Rick D. Granados ((b. Miami, FL, 1970): Bucks (graffiti font), Bushwick (handwriting), Ballbuster, Bedford (2010, an award-quality dot matrix family inspired by mosaic lettering by Heins&LaFarge, architects of the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) in New York City: Bedford hints at the station names on platform walls which date back to 1904 but modernize it through a rigid grid system and rounded corners), Bockhold (2010, a humanistic take on DIN), Broadcast (neat stencil face), Konstrukt (stencil), Construkt (2009, a unicase stencil), Falcon, Gran Torino, Roller Girl, Opera (2005, with Ros Knopov), Prisma 2012 (2010, an octagonal multiline face), Radiac (2010, a monoline squarish unicase face), Rukbat, Stylus, Schmearox, Tech Stencil (2000), Noise&Hum, STH Sirena (2006, inspired by hand-painted signage found in "Little Haiti" Miami, Florida), Boris Dworschak (Partisan East, Partisan West, Basic, Gaijin. Other designers include Nikola Djurek (Cornerset (pixel), Aiseman), Luis Valle&R.D. Granados (Lillian, a script face), Arnold Steiner (Statica, Organic Mechanic), Michael Clarke (Paris), Carlos Alfonso (Locut, 2Bit), Denise Wilton (Stereobitz, a stereo dingbat face), Nikola Djurek (Tribeca, Magasine, Soho, Novella) and unnamed author fonts such as Palleta, Rook, STH Kit 1, Stereobytes (audio dingbats), Stereobytes Vintage (hi-fi dings), Nomad (a deconstructivist stencil face). At FontStruct in 2009, he made the Victorian family Cartelle (+Inline), the pixel family Microdot, and Chico. Granados spends his time between New York City and Austin, Texas. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Steven Heller

Prolific author, art director of the New York Times Book Review and founder and coChair of the School of Visual Arts, New York MFA/Design Program. He is the former editor of the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design and author or editor of over 80 books on popular culture, graphic design history, and political art. He has written over 80 books on popular culture, graphic design history, and political art. MyFonts page on him. Editor of The Education of a Typographer (2004, Allsworth Press). Some of his books closest to type design and typography:

• Merz to Emigre and Beyond: Avant-Garde Magazine Design of the Twentieth Century (2004).
• Paul Rand (1998).
• Texts on Type: Critical Writings on Typography (2001, edited by Heller and Philip B. Meggs).
• Typology: Type Design from the Victorian Era to the Digital Age (1999, with Louise Fili).
• Faces on the Edge: Type in the Digital Age (1997, with Anne Fink).
• Handwritten: Expressive Lettering in the Digital Age (2006, with Mirko Ilic).
• Iron Fists Branding the 20th Century Totalitarian State (2008, London).
• Un Sedicesimo (2008, with Louise Fili, Corraini, Mantova, 2008).
• Letterforms: Bawdy, Bad and Beautiful: The Evolution of Hand-Drawn, Humorous, Vernacular, and Experimental Type (with Christine Thompson, Watson-Guptill, 2000): Christine Thompson, designer at the New York Times on the Web since the site's inception in 1995, has won multiple awards for her work in interactive media. She lives in New York.
• The Graphic Design Reader (Allworth Press), The Education of a Design Entrepreneur (Allworth Press), Graphic Humor: The Art of Graphic Wit (Allworth Press), Cuba Style: Graphics From the Golden Age of Design (Princeton Architectural Press), Counter Culture: The Allure of Mini-Mannequins (Princeton Architectural Press), The Swastika, Design Literacy.

Ted Staunton

Born in Lincoln, UK, in 1942, Ted Staunton now lives near Vancouver, and designs type. After serving a five-year apprenticeship as a hand compositor (1958-1963) with the Lincolnshire Publishing Co., he spent three years (1963-1966) at Leicester College of Art&Design, graduating in type design. After spending some time in London working for Penguin, Hamlyn and other book publishing houses, he emigrated to Canada in 1970, working for Mitchell Press and Hemlock Printers in Vancouver before opening his own design business and letterpress printing shop, Sherwood Graphics, in 1984. In 1991 he published a private press book, The Lincolnshire Poacher, illustrated with his own wood-engravings. He is lives in Surrey, BC. Some of his fonts were used privately on transfer lettering sheets and cast in metal for hand typesetting at his private press, Sherwood Letterpress. At P22, he designed the semi-gothic font P22 Tyndale (2002) and Tyndale Extras (2002). In 2003, P22 launched Staunton's Sherwood Type Collection, a beautiful collection of revivals: Afton, Albemarle (2008), Albion, Albion Italic, Amelia (caps), Aragon, Avocet Light, Canterbury (+Caps A, Caps B, Caps C, Pro), Elven, Floriat, Founders, Freely, Kaz (2008, between architecture and Comic Sans), P22 Kelly Pro (2009, Celtic style uncial), Latimer, Lindum, Mayflower (medieval lettering), Mayflower Italic, Mayflower Smooth, Mercian, Phantasmagoria (Celtic influences), Plymouth, Roanoke script (rough texture face; Albemarle ius the smooth version), 1722 roman, 1722 italic, Sherwood, Sparrow, Symphony, Tyndale, and Tyndale Xtras. In 2005, still at P22, the Staunton Script Family include handwritten style typefaces that simulate the period spanning between the English Civil War (1640s) and the Victorian Era (1839-1901): Virginian, Royalist, Grosvenor, Grenville, Elizabethan, Broadwindsor, Chatham. In 2009, just in time for Halloween, he created P22 Spooky. P22 Ruffcut was designed in 2012.

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Terrance Weinzierl

Grand Rapids, MI-based graphic designer. His fonts include TW Geo Slab (2007), Dux (2007, ornamental Victorian type), Wingman (2006, handwriting) and Weinzierl Slab (2006, see also here). He joined Ascender and created there the stencil blackletter face Stenblak (2010), informal script face Rebus Script (2009, with Steve Matteson) and Romany (2009), a non-connecting script which was originally designed by A.R. Bosco and released by American Type Founders in 1934. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

The Dingbatcave (was: Ann-S-Thesia)
[Ann Stretton]

The Dingbatcave offers many dingbat fonts by Ann Stretton from Racine, WI. Ann Crawlers (crawlers!) is free. Borders, spiders, ringbats, ornaments, annaments. The spirals (5 fonts) are absolutely wonderful! Fonts include EyeEyeMate, Characters, Wreck Tangles, WebBats, BrideofWebbats, Victorian Frames, VictorianTriplets, Scrollbars, Decobands, GuestStars, Shaped Spheres, Satellite, Frets, RolyPoly (great circles), Wreck Tile, Ornaborder, Butterfly Scrolls, Annuals MorningGlories, Pansies, Petunias, Poppies and Zinnias, Wingnuts, Kaleidoblocks, Gothblocks Tetrascopes, Spinafores, Pinaforms, Patchquirks and Interlochs, Mandalarama Florascopes, Cross Scrolls, Triangles, HexaGlyphs, DecoGlyphs. Seconds One and Two were free at some point. Stan Starbuck's Stan Nipple family of ornamental circles is great (Pallas, Plato's Laws, Timaeus). Nearly all fonts are commercial now. Alternate URL to Ann-S-Thesia.

At the now defunct OmegaFrog site she published some fonts that may have disappeared or improved, so I will list them for the historical record only: Annaments, Basketweave, Borders, DecoFrieze, DecoGlyphs, DingBatik, Florascopes, Frieze, GothicFrieze, HexaGlyphs, Kaleidoblocks, Ringbats, Roundabouts, Scrolls, Speyerals (one of the greatest spiral fonts on earth!), Spinwheels, Spirals, Woodblocks. A quote from that site: Her art is abstract, geometric, embellished, decadent and fun. She's the webmistress behind The S.S.Studio, also known as Ann-S-Thesia's Gallery of Digital Delights. At Garagefonts, check Baroquoco (borders).

Finally, several fonts can be bought at MyFonts, such as the great gender symbol and astrological font family Ann's Astro. One also finds Speyerals, Dividers, EyeEye Mate (eyes), Decorative Bands, GothBlocks, WreckTile, Deco Glyphs, Spirals, Ann's Valentines, Satellite, Victorian Franmes, Shaded Spheres, Butterfly Scrolls, Guest Stars (scanbats), Bijous, Quadtiles, Stellars, Florascopes, FriezeFrame, Scrolls, Savvy Navvy, Characters, Modules, Annaments, Gingerbread Borders, Victorian triplets, Borders, OctOs, Cross Scrolls, Crop Circuits, Scrollbars, Web Bats, Framemamker, WreckTangle, TimePieces, NatureSwirls, Primotifs, Breakfast at TifAnnie's, Annuals, Bride of WebBats, Whirligigs, Basketweave, Dingbatik, Wingnuts, Frets, Ornaborder. Gone are Anns Butterfly, Breakfast Muffins, Stan Bugs, and Wingnut5.

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The Logical Choice

A free font, vicmodcu, for "Victorian Modern Cursive Handwriting" (truetype). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Thomas Phinney

Font technology expert who runs his own type tech blog. Thomas Phinney was in Adobe's type group from 1997 until December 2008, mostly as Product Manager for Fonts&Global Typography, based in Seattle. At Adobe, he was involved in the technical, design, historical and business aspects of type, and worked closely with other font developers and customers. He has a Master's degree in typography and design from RIT, and an MBA from UC Berkeley. In 2008, he joined Extensis, where he is senior product manager for font solutions.

He created Geode (2004, Adobe) and Hypatia Sans (2005-2007, Adobe, an elegant geometric sans family, complete with coverage of East European languages, Greek and Cyrillic). Hypatia Sans Pro (2009) is a more complete family that was finished with the help of Paul Hunt.

In 2012, he started work on Cristoforo, a revival of Hermann Ihlenburg's Victorian typeface Columbus (1890, ATF) and its accomapnying American Italic, also by Ihlenburg. Kickstarter project. Phinney notes that it is known as the typeface of Call of Cthulhu, the H.P. Lovecraft roleplaying game, and as the original logo for Cracker Jack.

At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about the demise of multiple masters, and the future of OpenType and type 1. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he announced the phasing out of type 1 at Adobe. He has spoken at nearly all of the TypeTech parts of the annual ATypI meetings. At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he spoke about web fonts and on OpenType. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. His talk at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik is entitled TSI: Type Scene Investigations.

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Thomas Vree

Dutch type designer, b. 1967, Amsterdam, who now works in Dundas Valley, Ontario, Canada, in pre-press and the print trade. He has had wonderous encounters with other type designers. He made 47 digital typefaces. As far as I can tell, no sales, and no downloads. Behance link. A partial list:

• Amazon (1996). Most letters are didone, but some serifs are Bodoniesque.
• Amsterdam: A compendium of experimental typefaces done starting in 1988. He writes: My initial forays into type consisted of hacking Letraset, distorting it on photocopiers, playing around with it on stat cameras, then adding to that with tech pens, etc. Then in early 88 I started drawing type on the computer. I was doing fanzines, gig posters, logos, tape covers, etc. and I knew instinctively that I wanted to use typefaces other than the ones I had at my disposal. My choices at the time were very limited, and nothing I had access to accurately conveyed the look I thought would be appropriate for say an experimental electronic combo. So I started drawing my own typefaces.
• Bass Bin (1997). A first hint of grunge.
• Boloni (1996). A Bodoni face.
• Cosmodrome (1992).
• Cryptonym (1995). A mishmash of fonts reconstructed to give something magical.
• Dirigible (1993). A slightly convex display face.
• Dread (1991). In the style of Kisman's Fudoni and Makela's Dead History.
• Engravers Initials 2 and 3 (2011). These are Victorian über-ornamental semi-blackletter faces based on designs found in Dan X. Solo's Gothic and Old English Alphabets from Dover Publications.
• Faith. Thomas writes: Back in 94, 95 Paul Sych of Faith asked me to do the production work on a typeface package he was going to release through Thirstype. I created the analphabetic, accented characters, set up the kerning tables, and in some cases, created variants (italic, bold, outline, etc.) One of the faces was Wit, which was inspired by the experimental typography of Kurt Schwitters. The set of faces Thomas did included Wit, Fix Plain Mix, Fix Sin Mix, Fix Ram Hog Mix, and USeh.
• Freddy. A digital version of an art nouveau face that Morgan Press had been using in the 1960s [those psych faces were mostly inspited by art nouveau].
• Gyrosol (1997).
• Jarkko. Based on old sign painter lettering.
• Lucas: a sans family.
• Lucifah: comic book lettering.
• Mau Gothic: a bold weight of W.A. Dwiggins's Gothic, on commission for Bruce Mau Design.
• Nephilim (1996).
• Penetralia (1990). An ultra-condensed face.
• Percolator. An organic face.
• Poser (1995): A comic book face.
• Puffage (2010): a typeface made up of pot leaf elements.
• Ray Gun: a type done for a Ray Gun flyer.
• Reklame. With hints of Avant Garde.
• Snug Industries Font (a logotype done with Tony Elston).
• SubRosa (1992). A squarish condensed face.
• Thornaments. A set of symmetric ornamental symbols.

Tom Kennedy

Thomas Kennedy started working for Baldwin Designs, a wood sign company in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1989, where he grew up. He specialized in signage and lettering, and hooked up with Letterhead Fonts in 2011. He now lives in Sweden. Designer at Letterhead of the Pilsner formal script font family (2002) (the lower case is now called Ballpark Script), Egyptian (2006), Pilsner Swashes, CigarShop Corona, CigarShop Maduro (2002, caps), the Western billboard font Tonic (2002), LHF Thick and Thin (2002, sign painting caps in serif and sans styles), Ephemera and Ephemera Swashes (2002, calligraphic), Colonial Roman (2003), Rawson&Evans (Victorian), Royal Script (2003), Cosmic Cursive (2004-2011, a drop dead gorgeous thick upright script), Billhead (2004), Firehouse (2004, a Tuscan face) and Thick and Thin (2003, sans and serif). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Toto

Quezon City (Philippines)-based designer of revivals and opportunistic typefaces, who is quite active on newsgroups like alt.binaries.fonts. His production is impressive:

• Typefaces from Dan Solo's books: K22 Helve Cursive (based on Helvetica Serif by Dan Solo; other digitizations include Pen Tip (WSI) and Renania (Intellcta)), K22 Spiral Swash (Victorian), K22 Athenian Wide (2011: K22 Athenian Wide is Athenian Wide on page 5 of Circus Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts by Dan X. Solo; see also Tobias SSK), K22 TriLine Gothic (2011, a multiline art deco face based on Ross F. George's TriLine Gothic from 1956), K22 Timbuctu (2011: this is the Arabic simulation face Timbuctu on page 73 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces and on page 95 of Special Effects and Topical Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts by Dan X. Solo), K22 Didoni (2011, + Swash: a fat face based on Didoni from page 33 of Swash Letter Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts by Dan X. Solo and also on page 140 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces), K22 K22 Eureka (2010, based on Eureka from Dan X. Solo's book "Circus Alphabets, 100 Complete Fonts"), K22 Monastic (2010, based on Monastic from Victorian Display Alphabets by Dan X. Solo), Solo Ornaments (2003, based on Solo's books), K22 Eclair (2010, a decorative Western face Toto found in Dan X. Solo's book on Victorian alphabets, but which in fact dates back to Hans Brehmer in 1868), K22 Karnak Deco (2009, a slab serif based on Karnak Deco from the Moderne Alphabets by Dan X. Solo and published by Dover Publications in 1999).
• Revivals of Letraset phototypes: K22 Lucifer No. 1 (2012, a beveled neon-look face).
• Typefaces from 101 Alphabets (W. Ben. Hunt and Ed. C. Hunt, The Bruce Publishing Company, New York, 1958): Saisa (2011, art deco face), K22 Amihan (2011, an art deco face, after this original).
• MICR fonts: K22 GKW Computer (2011, a MICR font which is based on KW Computer from ATF, and looks very similar to Moore Computer), Auto Mission (2011, after Auto Mission was derived from the MICR font Automation Shaded on page 3 of Solo's Special Effects and Topical Alphabets, and is more complete than Otto Mason SH, the Soft Horizon digitization of Automation).
• Fonts based on work by Ross F. George: K22 TriLine Gothic (2011) is based on Tri-Line Gothic by Ross F. George in Speedball Text Book, 17th Edition, 1956.
• K22 Stile Ballmer (2011, after an art deco face made by Walter Ballmer for Olivetti), Mallary (2011, based on Mallary from page 43 of Dan X. Solo's Moderne Alphabets).
• K22 Landi Linear (2011, after Nebiolo's Landi Linear).
• Le Pochoir (2011, an art deco stencil face (à la Futura Stencil) based on an alphabet from Plate 40 of La Lettre dans la Peinture et la Publicité by Jean Joveneaux, Paris, 1987), Le Pochoir Creux (2011), Lettre dans le decor (2011, based on an alphabet from "La Lettre dans le Decor et la Publicité Modernes").
• Splash Gordon (2011, +Inline; after the title of Flash Gordon, the movie).
• Soccer shirt fonts: Brooks Chile (2011, used by Chile in the 2010 world cup), SwitchImage FC Copenhagen (2011, used by FC Kopenhagen), Azmie WC2010 South Korea (2010), SwitchimageACMilan (2010), FCBarcelona (2010), Azmie WC2010 United States (2010), Azmie WC2010 England (2010), Azmie WC2010 Australia (2010), Azmie WC2010Brazil (2010, based on a vector image by Kuala Lumpur-based Azmie for the Brazilian World Cup team), Azmie WC2010Portugal, Azmie WC2010Netherlands, Azmie2Slovenija-2010, Real Madrid 2011 (2010).
• K22 EricGill Shadow (2011, after Gill's 1929 face, Gill Sans Shadow 338; and K22 EricGill Shadow Line, an inline version).
• Sajou Fancy Gothic (2011, based on pages 3 and 4 of Sajou No. 236, a late 19th century French embroidery booklet).
• RAWB (2010, ultra fat family).
• Linyat Bilog (2010). A geometric monoline typeface.
• K22 Ambelyn Condensed (2010, based on Ambelyn Condensed, page 2 of Condensed Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts by Dan X. Solo and also page 21 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces where it is called Ambelyn), K22 Spiral Swash (2010, based on Spiral Swash from Dan X. Solo's Swash Letter Alphabets (p79)).
• Art Jam MakingFaces (2003, a great dingbat font based on designs found in Image Club Graphics' volume 30, called Art Jam).
• Town Sketches Bandstand (2003, based on volume 35 (Sketches On The Town)).
• Fonts based on Aridi's designs: Nabel Initials (2005, based on Marwan Aridi's Nabel from the Initial Caps Vol I), Anabel (2005, a simpler version of Nabel Initials), Blister Caps (2005, based on the Blister set from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. 1), RegalAlt, RegalInitials (2005, based on the Regal set from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. I), SpringAlt, SpringInitials (2005, based on the Spring set from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. I), VictorianaAlt, VictorianaInitials (2005, based on the Victoriana set from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. III), Tuscan Initials (2005, based on more of Marwan Aridi's alphabets), Napoli Initials (2009, more Aridi capitals), Gothic Initials (2009, Aridi-based), Romant Initials (2009, Aridi-based), Royal Initials (2009, Aridi-based), Stone Initials (2009, also based on Aridi).
• K22 You Know Who (2004, dingbats based on Dark Mark from the Harry Potter books).
• Gidget Cameo (2004).
• K22 Xerxes (2003, a stone carving typeface).
• Dover Birds (2012, based on the Birds Alphabet Coloring Book by Ruth Soffer, Dover Publications).
• K22 Spotty (2012) is a dot matrix font based on Tony Huggett's Spotty (Zipatone).
• K22 Gadget Lined (2012) is an art deco typeface based on Gadget Lined by Peter Bennett at Zipatone.
• K22 Lawenta (2012). A teepee-styled typeface (check also Nick Curtis's Wigwam NF). He says: The font is based on the alphabet on page 63 of 101 Alphabets by W. Ben. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Typadelic
[Ronna Penner]

Ronna Penner (b. Niagara, Ontario, Canada, 1958) founded Typadelic, a commercial foundry. She who won an award at Bukvaraz 2001 for Sketchley (2001, now a Bitstream font), which is based on her own handwriting. She is located in Waterloo, Ontario. Sketchley and Sketchley Swash are available from Bitstream. Font list: Avril (gorgeous handprinting), Butterflies (dingbats), BlackJack (2002, free), Clarissa (2002), Corky, Frivolous (2002), FiddlestixFunnyCaps (2002), FamousFolks (2002), Inkster (2002), Stone Hinge (2003), JellyBean, Jot, Mayfield, Moonbeam, Pointed Brush, Rendezvous (2003, calligraphic), Lee Ann (2003, calligraphic), Java Jive (2003, comic book style), Ronita (2000, Bitstream), Sketchley, Silver Script (2002), Silver Script Flourishes (2002), Velvet Script (2002), Fiddlestix, Garden Party (2002), Quigley (2002, great art nouveau font), Hayseed (2003), Fresh Paint (2002, handwriting), Frisco Serif (2002), Frisco Sans Serif (2002), Sunnydale (2003, handwriting), American Writer (2003, a Tekton-like font), Amelie (curly handwriting), Rockford (2003, handwriting), Persimmon (2004, brush script), Peach Fuzz, Sheree (2009), Journal Hand (2009), Dream Cake (2009), Sweet Pea, Mirielle (2004), Natural Script (2004), Not Too Shabby (2004), Schlub (2004), Tweedledee (2004), Type Keys (2004), Urban Scrawl (2004), Jinxed (2004), Wazoo (2004), Stylin (2008, a monoline face), Love Ya Honey (2009, a 1950s style handprinted script), Shes All That (2009), Sharpy (2009, monoline), Tanked (2009), Cattapilla (2009, children's handprinting), Average Joe (2009) and Sweetheart Script (2007, sold via FontBros).

Fonts from 2011: Pink Lemonade (child's hand), Little Sunshine (Open, Solid: slightly Victorian letters), Gaffer, Ruff N Ready, Elisabeth (rough-edged antiqua), Miss Demeanor (based on 1930s script), Wee Todd (2011, kid's hand), Crush (grunge). FontShop link. Fontspace link. Font Squirrel link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

TypOasis 2006
[Manfred Klein]

Fonts published in 2006 by Manfred Klein: BatsStuff, CIAThePeaceWatchers, Expressiones, Faces, FirstLove, FischersFritzen, GodsAndHeroes, Hispanish, LifeIsAMovie, NewsFromAbsurdistan, PrivateLuck, BookBeings, DaddyGrid, LineArtVectoria, AbstractToConcrete, AfricainBats, Gestalten, GloriaVectoria, ModernTimesMrChaplin, PhotosToVectors, PixelBats, SurrealismK, BlaxArties, CoolDrawings, DogsFewCats, MKBrokenTypes, NearModernArt, Piepmaetze2006, Poppenspeeler, SportsAnimals, WithALittleHelp, AllWeathers, BienMayaInvers, CarnevaleConCarne, RenaissBeings, Sagenwelt, Scissoria, Sketcheria2, StrandgutC, TrainWhatVectorMeans, CuxhavenFraktur, CuxhavenInitials, MK-Skulls, ModernHeros, MouseArt, WillkommenLeute, WreckageCuttings, CurrentBlack, AtLastATshirt, Holzschnitte, OpticalArt, Taucher, WebArtSigns, ArteVectoria, OldStyleTravel, PicturesA, Trust YourDentist, GutenbergGoesAbstract, MouseFruitFaces, Silhouettes02, SomeCapsStories, HandsDown, HandsUp, HumanPartsStore, PhantaToons, ArteFacts02, BlackBeckMan, GeoEyes01, RockFonts01, Sketchbook01, Sketchbook02, WitchesStuff, Vampyrish-ABC, AfricArtes, ArtistTracesTwo, BirdsInfluenced, KidsDrawings02, LogosLogo, MesoFauna02, MyHouse, PhaistosFingers, ReligiousSymbols, TypographicTangos, EmkaBats, GeldRegiertDie Welt, GnomesTwo, KaleidoBats, KaleidoTypes03, StrongEuro, BigShadows, BigShadowsLeftOblique, Bradbury-Oblique, BuschButGerman, DillElefantenTwo, EgyptRund, KaleidWieynckFrax, KaleidoTypesCinque, KaleidoTypesQuattro, SomeTypesSilhous, LogoPhantasies, LogoSketchesMK, MKsketches, MonAmourFraktur-Broken, PlanetarishBats, SmallTypeWriting, SmallTypeWriting-Medium, StagesAfterEarthquake, StencilStamps, WoMan, Working, ImresCorrodetCaps, OldLettresOmbrees, GingkoFraktur, LufrakturBricks, MonAmourCaps, HeadfeeterO2, MangaManjana, MangaTypes, MrVector, OnStreet, PetitButtoni, Amputata, Chaplone, KleidosChaplina, VeryBrokenFrax, AbstractClassicCuts, BauhausOSix, ComicHeadsBeings, GeoStructures2, Kaleido04Invers, MechanicsActors, SuchLifeC, BerlinCaps, BrushPenMK-Medium, LettersSnakesAndMore, ComicChars, FineArts, ForCongrats, Frames, OldfashionPeopleTwo, PeopleButtons, PiCollection, SilhousOldfashion, SomeArtists01, AntikAlphaBeta, CorrodetInitials, DrunkenSailor, MendelsohnsTochter, AnimalsOldfashion, ColumbusAntePortas, CuriousVisitors, DadaPeople01, Malheur, OldDrawingsOne, WetterKapriolen, CatsAlphabet, DigitalisHistory, Duodez, EatMyHat, FlorAlphabet, InitialenFramed-MK, ArmsIdeasNParts, BirdsNPlants, Petrographs, SomeArtistsSquares, TypoJewels, TypoJewelsSquare, ClassicRomanCaps, IllustratedAlphabet, KleinHeadline, MKGreco, ArtParticles, ChildrensDarlings, Clowns, Devils, DongbutsBeings, HistoricMedicine, K-Labyrinths, WoodcutFurniture, Nighthawk, ToleCaps, CaveBeings, DesignElemente, DinoSilhous, StreetGraffArts, TribalBats, VignettesNFrames, Reclamare (art deco), AstroSymbols3, BlacKLinoleum, CaveLife, Krabbeltiere, LandAnimals, LionsClub, OldArtTools, OldScissorCuts, ZooloVectoriA, MotherAndChild, GermanFatman, Botanish, CrazyWeather, HeadImprovisations, Masks_K, MiddleAgers, Nipponia, DelitzschCaps, ImresDiscs, EgyptMythOne, LessIsMore, Protectors, SpaceBeingsTwo, ZooBats, HappyFrax, CorneredBirds, ExtraTerrestrial, Gargoyle, GargoyleRings, HeadSketches, IndiansToday, InTwilight, MardiKrass, OldCastles, AffigMonkeys, AngelsOrDevils, FlyingPioneers, MaritimK, MonkeysTheatre, PardonAgain, PardonThankYou, PetroglyphMarks, PixelFifties, SmallEdgedFrax, TextEmptyStickers, M-AnimalsUno, PhantasyDolls, SilhouettenPeople, TribalDesigns, ZodiacsSignStars, FacesAlphabetBeta, FatFineFree, AstrobatsInvers, BlackArt, BusyPeople01, GoodOldEyeCatchers, L'ArtPourL'Art, NipponFlorales, OtherShapes, Rock'nRollTime, RunningBeings, AstrologyCeltic, ColtecsBats, DesignParts, EgyptChildren, ElectricFaces, Kidsfont01, MediBats01, MediCartoons, OldTimers, TribalBirdsMissingGap, Archaeological, BeforeAlphabetsGallery, BlackWhiteMinimalism, DancingLetters, EveryPictureTellsAntique, FemalesNMales, HeadsGallery, ImprovisationsAboutK, KleinsBrokenGotik, KleinsKruschKursiv, MusiciansOne, OldRomaUno, OurLittleDarlings-One, ParmaInitialenMK, RunningZigzags, RunningZigzagsTwo, ScrapArt, SpaceWorkers, StripedSansBlack, SzeneInFrames, TypoDisturbances, Wacomian-Regular, ZoologicalGardenOne, ZoologicalGardenThree, ZoologicalGardenTwo, AlphabetismHand, KlungerCaps, RememberScribbledInv, Tequila, LudwigHohlwein, CatSketches, HeadSketches02, Krizzeleyn, PowerWoman, RosettaCalligraphia01, ThingsFound, TypoSymbols, VectorAnimals, Fraxboxes, RodgauCaps, OhRosetta, Olisillus, DeKonitials, Buddhism, Roylich, Grotesk, BigBrotherClassizismCaps, K-LettresOmbrÃées, TreeLike, InsectsTwo, Woodcutter, OldAntique, MKGrecoExtraBold, AbstractFaces, Africaans, AfricanGhosts, EmotionDrawings, GeoFacesBold, MirosWitchesMedium, Neighbours, PrimaryBats, RoundPieces06, StoneAgeBats, TypoSignals, SlabRoundSerif-Light, VictorianInitialsOne, Techno06, Artists, MasKs, Masks03, MythologicalArts, MythoBats, OldBoysToys, OldPictures, StarsStripesBullets, Woodcuts01, FischersFritze, HistoricPeople, HotelPrisoner, MythologicalSquares, OrnataUno, PatternArt, PatternaliaMK, WoodcutsFontissimo, ZooCages, AfricaArt, Meeting, Pumpkins2006, ElephantaBlack, FatSansRound, FishFaces, FlagHolder, HiddenSigns, HinduismK, Jugendstil-Medium, ManneKen, MobileSquares, OrnamHeads, PrivateAstroBats, RosettaMutanta, Schonan-Black, ScribbledFraktur-XHeavy, SomeImprosBats, VectorFaces, VikingsArt, AfricanissimaOSix, ApishOne, AxeBlack, CircusBoldSquares, EiDesKolumbus-Improvisations, FamilyLifeBats, HiddenSignsRings, KidSignsThree, KochsLongCapsSquares, SketchesX, TreesAndCo, VectorDrawingsOne, BlackWhiteSigns, BoringSansBold, CuxhavenInitialsRound, FrakturNitials, GeometricConstructs, HandsAndFeet-Two, HeadsNBirds, IrishHalfUncialisBricks, IrishUncialfabeta-Bold, MaennekinTwo, MutantA-MediumOblique, MyMaestroMrMiro, RomanaCapsClassicSquares, RoundBats, RoundFacesTwo, SansThirteenBlack, SchabLonski, TypographicRosettas, WinterSports, PopUp, Gotic Caps, Fun Bats, HappyXmasBats, MKlothes, MKomicsV2, AllDaysJokes, Blackbirds, DiscoverBats, EgyptianSilhouettes, FiftyYearsAgo, HumanRelations, MKoepfeBold, NewDarkTimes, PeaceTools, SilhouettSketches, SpaceMeetings, ComicFaces, MK-Heads, NewKoeppes, PetrasBauhausXmas, SilhousSimplex, StonesAgeButtons, ZagzagHeads02, BigMummy, CircusBoldSquaresInvers, EmastEtcetera, MKanzleiCaps-One, ReadersBats, SimPlexBats, XmasImprovisations, AnimalsPrey, Cartoons, Weihnacht2006, AxelsWoodTypesMK, CowBats, KleinsLittleDings. 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Typolar (was: Jarno Lukkarila Type Foundry, or: Format Design)
[Jarno Lukkarila]

Jarno Lukkarila (b. 1978) works mainly in graphic design. As the author of the typography reference book Tekstuuri: typografia julkaisijan työvälineenä (2001, Helsinki: CredoNet) he is one of the few writing about the subject in the Finnish language. He ran a typography-oriented design studio called Format Design in Helsinki and lectures part time on typography in Finnish design schools. Lukkarila was recognized as a type designer in the Morisawa Awards 2002, where his Xtra Sans typeface received the bronze prize in the Latin category. Lukkarila studied type design at the Royal Academy of Art, the Hague, in the postgraduate course Type&Media highlighted by the writing and letter design workshop of Gerrit Noordzij in 2000. Before this he graduated as graphic designer in Finland. Format Design became Jarno Lukkarila Type Foundry, and in 2010 morphed into Typolar, which is based in London. Typolar is run with Teemu Ollikainen and Saku Heinänen.

His type families, most of which start with an extreme hairline weight.

• Xtra Sans: this won an award at TDC2 2007.
• In 2009, he finally published his 66-style Egyptian family Tanger Serif. Images: Medium Heavy, Narrow, Wide Ultra light.
• Calypso E (2010, E for Egyptian): a slab serif. Calypso I (2010, I for Italian) is a Victorian face.
• Vinkel (Typolar) was not designed by Lukkarila---it is a mini-slab serif family by Saku Heinänen.
• Altis (2011, Typolar). A readable sans family from Hairline to Black---ideal for information design.

Typonauten
[Ingo Krepinsky]

Ingo Krepinsky (b. 1976, Eschwege) graduated in 2000 from Fachhochschule Hannover, and in 20903 from Hochschule für Künste Bremen, where he specialized in typography. He is a cofounder and type designer at Typonauten, a Bremen-based commercial font foundry started in 1998. MyFonts sells these fonts: Freakshow (2005, grunge), Nautilo Font System (2002, a futuristic font family), Oklahoma (2003, Wild West, handpainted look; the Pro version from 2012 was done with Gunnar Link), Toon Town (2005, a comic book face done with Stefan Kroemer), B-Movie Retro (2007 a brush font series with Florian Schick and Stefan Kroemer), B-Movie Splatter (2007, a grunge version of that family). Newsletter (2007) is an extensive no-frills sans family influenced by fonts like OCR-B and DIN. Newsletter Stencil was published at Volcano Type. Creator (with Gunnar Link and Stefan Kroemer) of Royal Oak Decor (Victorian ornaments), Royal Oak Sans (Edwardian headline sans) and Royal Oak Serif (Western headline face). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

UTF Type Foundry
[Bill Tchakirides]

Fonts designed by Bill Tchakirides (b. 1946) out of Shepherdstown, WV (was Hartford, CT), who writes about himself: Would you believe that this old man in West Virginia was once a Broadway Producer, or a Commercial Food Photographer, or a Justice of the Peace, or a Font Designer, or even a Director of a major non-profit Arts Program on Cape Cod? Well, he was. Now he spends most of his time posting in the blogosphere and looking for things to do (retirement is a bitch).

This company (UTF=U-Design Type Foundry) sells display and picture fonts at 45 dollars a shot (30+15 handling): Bill's Hand Chiseled, Bill's Blasting Caps, Bill's Fat Freddy Caps, Bill's Olde Foundry, Bill's 1935 Caps, Bill's Printer Pals (2003), Bill's Light Deco, Bill's DECOrations, Bill's Tropical DECOrations, Bill's Modern Diner, Bill's Barnhart Ornaments (1989), Bill's Victorian Ornaments, Bill's Broadway DECOrations, Bill's Dingbats (1988---his first font), Bill's Universal Symbols, Bill's Century Marks, Bill's Cast O Characters (2003), Bill's New Elzevir (1993), Bill's School Letters (1993), Bill's School Daze (1993), Bill's American Ornaments (1993), Bill's Bertham (after Goudy), Bill's Brushed Broadway (1993, fat art deco face), Bill's Metropolitan (1993, art nouveau), Bill's Peculiars, Bill's Real Rubber Stamps, Bill's Asterisks and Bullets (1993), Bill's FISTory (1993), Bill's Brackets, Bill's Ampersands, Bill's Box Specials. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Verónica Bertazzo

Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the Victorian era face Arnol (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Victorian fonts

Claude recommends these choices for "Victorian fonts": CD-rom 24 victorian - Dan X Solo: Anglo, Arboret, Campanile, Chorus Girl, Fancy Celtic, Ferdinand, Floral Latin, Glorietta, Grant Antique, Gutenberg, Hogarth, Jagged, Katherine Bold, Lafayette, Meistersinger, Olympian, Phidian, Ringlet, Romanesque, Rubens, Stereopticon, Templar, Wedlock, Zinco. Plus: Aesthetic, Alfereta (VocoScript) (SSi), Arcadian, Bijou (Riccio Display Script) (SSi), Crusader (Croyon), Excelsis (FarquharsonFree), Fancy Card Text (Silver Graphic Showcard), Fantail (Wanted) (R.Beatty), Gardenia (Holtzschue) (D. Rakowski), Lady Text (KellyAnnGothic) (Mike Allard), Orleans Open (SaloonDisplayCaps) (SSi), Recherche (R. Beatty), Trocadero, Ullmar (Angular) (J. Fordyce). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vintage Victorian Home

Small archive of Victorian era fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Walter Heberling

German handletterer. His work from 1925 inspired Nick Curtis to digitize Fortune Cookie (2007) and Eulalie NF (2009). Heberling Casual NF (2002, Nick Curtis) is based on a single-stroke pen font from Heberling's Basic Lettering, and elements of composition, color harmony, gilding, embossing-processes (1922). All these fonts are quirky and almost Victorian. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Wiescher Design
[Gert Wiescher]

Based in München, Gerd Wiescher designed many classy and classic Bodoni families, as well as New Yorker Type (1985). All characters are carefully fine-tuned and balanced. Wiescher founded first Munich Type and then Wiescher Design and Autographis. He is known as a hard, fast and prolific worker. His exquisite faces can be bought at MyFonts. Catalog of his bestselling typefaces. Interview in 2008. List of faces:

• Scripts: Nono (2011, formal swashy calligraphic family), Dyane (2011), Penn (2011), Lettera (2011, hand-drawn formal face), Tosca (2010, a high-contrast calligraphic face with 730 glyphs), Grandcafe (2010), Loulou (2010, curly and of extreme contrast), Schoolblock (2010, handprinted school font), Grandezza (2010, calligraphic family; +Xtra), Sixtra (2010, a curly didone script), English Script (2010, classic Spencerian calligraphic script), Savage Initials (2009), Morning News (2009), Revolte (2009, a brush script for demonstration signs), Estelle (2009), Scriptofino (2008, 4 calligraphic styles to give Zapfino a run for its money), Exprima (2008), Daiquiri (2008), Lisa Bella, Lisa Fiore and Lisa Piu (2008, connected and calligraphic), Tati (2008), Movie Script (2007), Cake Script (2007), Eddy (2007, grungy calligraphy), Pointino (2007), Bohemio (2007, a great oriental-brush script), Artegio (2007, two calligraphic scripts), Xylo (2006, in the tradition of the 18th-century English calligrapher George Bickham and the 19th-century American calligrapher Platt Rogers Spencer), Tamara (2005, art-deco script based on some initials for Semplicita made in the 1930s by the Nebiolo foundry), Tecon, Ellida (2005, inspired by the elaborate scripts of 18th-century English calligrapher George Bickham, with additional influences from 19th-century American calligrapher Platt Rogers Spencer), Eloise (2009, a high-contrast version of Ellida), Nadine (2005, an elegant script inspired by a set of initials the French designer and artist Bernard Naudin drew for Deberny&Peignot in the 1920s), Royal Classic (2005, unbelievable script based on a design that has initially been comissioned by King Ludwig I of Bavaria for in-house-use), DesignerScript, Filzer Script (1995, handwriting), Futuramano-Condensed-Bold, Futuramano-Condensed, Futuramano-Plain, Futuramano-Thin, Giambattista, Scriptissimo-Plain, Scriptissimo-Forte, Scriptissimo-Swirls, Squickt (1989), Konstantin A, B and C (2005), Konstantin Forte (2005), MyScript, GrocersScript, Swanson (2006). Scriptissimo (2004) has versions named Start, Middle and End, tweaked for their position in the word, and there are plenty of ligatures. Check also Bodoni Classic Chancery (2007) and Bodonian Script (2012).
• Sans: Contra Sans (2011, which led to Contra Slab, Contra Condensed and Contra Flare), Vedo (2011, a Bauhaus style family that include a hairline weight), Germania (2011, a useful and beautiful monoline sans family), Geometa (2011, +Rounded, +Rounded Deco, +Deco: all based initially on Renner's Futura), Geometra Rounded (2011, a rounded family based on Futura and "much less boring than DIN"), Bombelli (2010, ultra-wide architect's hand), Bluenote Demi (2010, a grungy Franklin Gothic Condensed), Perfect Sketch (2010, sketched grotesque), Unita (2009), Antea (2009), Eterna (2009, sans with a swing), Pura (2008, an uncomplicated grotesk family), Purissima (2010, a decorated extension of Pura; +Bold), Copperplate Gothic Hand (2009, after a 1901 design by Goudy), Copperplate Alt (2011), Copperplate Wide (2011), FranklinGothicHandDemi (+Shadow), Franklin GothicHandCond (2009), Franklin Gothic Condensed Shadow Hand (2010), and Franklin Gothic Hand Light (2009, a hand-drawn version of Franklin Gothic), Papas (2005, sturdy, slightly curly), Julienne (2005, a condensed sans family), Cassandra (avant-garde), Ela Sans (2005, a large family), Mondial-Bold (2004), Mondial-Demi, Mondial-Light, Mondial-Medium, Mondial-Normal, Mondial-XBold, Monem-Bold, Monem-Medium, Monem-Normal, Monem-Roman.
• Serif: Imperia (2011, a Trajan column caps face), Monogramma (2012, a Trajan family for monograms), Imperium (2005, a precursor of Imperia with a Relief shadow style included), Hard Times (2011), Fat Times (2011, retraced Times), Elegia (2011, slightly Victorian family), Breathless (2010, a spiky family, inspired by nouvelle vague movie posters), Bodoni Classic 1, Bodoni Classic 2, Bodoni Classic 3, BodoniClassic-Condensed, BodoniClassic-Handdrawn, BodoniClassic-Swashes, BodoniClassic-Text, Bodoni Classic Deco, Bodoni Classic Swirls (2009), Bodoni Classic Pro (2011), Bodoni Comedia (2010, one of my favorites: a funny "live one day at a time" curly Bodoni cocktail), Bodoni Classic Swing (2010), Bodoni Classic Free Style (2010, curly), Bodoni Classic Ultra (2010), La Bodoni Plain (+Italic, 2008), Take Five (2005, a jazzy take on Bodoni Classic), DonnaBodoniAa, DonnaBodoniBe, and DonnaBodoniCe (three scripts named after Bodoni's wife, Margharita dell'Aglio, who published his complete works, the Manuale Tipografico, in 1818, five years after his death), Edito, Robusta. A great series, some of which were originally published at Fontshop, see, e.g., FFBodoniClassic (1994). MyFonts: When the first of Wiescher’s Bodoni Classic fonts came out in the 1993, there was nothing like it. Up to then, virtually all Bodoni revivals had been given clear-cut forms and square serifs. But Bodoni’s originals from the late 1800s were never as straight and simplistic as is often assumed: they had rounded serifs and slightly concave feet. Wiescher digitized a wide range of Bodoni letterforms, including a wonderful script-like family called Chancery and a nice series of Initials. Having accomplished his mission twelve years later, he began making personal additions to the family, such as the more decorative Bodoni Classic Swashes. Recently a useful little family was added to the clan: LaBodoni is sturdier and less optically delicate than most Bodonis, and therefore more usable as a text face. In 2008, he added a two-style Royal Romain, about which he writes: Royal Romain was commissioned by the most famous king of France, Louis XIV the Sun King. A group of Scientists set off to work on the task of producing the ultimate font for the king of all kings. After years of elaborations Philippe Grandjean then started to cut the final punches for the Imprimerie Royale and finished his part of the work with the fonts first appearance in the magnificent Médailles sur les principaux énvenémens du règne de Louis-le-Grand (1702). The complete set of 21 sizes of roman and italic letters was finished by Grandjean's successor Jean Alexandre and completed by Louis Luce in 1745. The font went by the name of Romain du Roi and was for the exclusive use of the Louis XIV. It was never sold or given to any other king or government. The king of Sweden tried to scrounge a set, but the king refused. This font is the basic design for such famous fonts as the Fournier and Bodoni. Just so the Romain du Roi doesn't get lost in the digital turmoil I set out to redesign it in 2004 and finished now in early 2008. I did a lot of research in France's National Library. A good excuse to visit Paris is always welcome!!! He also made Metra Serif (2009), Principe (2008) and Paillas (2009). Prince (2009) is a curlified didone.
• Engravers: Cavaliere (2010), Guilloche A (2009), CopperplateClassic-Plain, CopperplateClassic-Round, CopperplateClassic-Sans, Copperplate Classic Light Floral (2009), Cimiez-Bold, Cimiez-Roman (2004), Ela-Demiserif, Ela-Sans (2004), Eleganza (2008).
• Blackletter/Fraktur: Renais (2011, renaissance initials), Flipflop (2011), Fraktura and Fraktura Plus (2008), Royal Bavarian (2004, based on a face commissioned by King Ludwig 1st of Bavaria about 1834), Royal Blossom (2009), Royal Bavarian Fancy (2004), Bold Bavarian (2010, a heavy version of Royal Bavarian), Monkeytails (2008), Fat Fritz (2006, rounded endings), Ayres Royal (2005, blackletter face based on drawings of London's calligrapher John Ayres, ca. 1700; to be used with RoyalBavarian; followed in 2010 by BoldAyres).
• Slab serif: Egyptia (2010), Egyptia Rounded (2010).
• Typewriter: Lectra (2011), QuickType-Bold, QuickType-Plain, QuickType-Sans.
• Decorative: Cannonball (2012, a psychedelic face derived from a jazz record-sleeve for Cannonball Adderley), Byblos (2011, derived from the logo of St. Tropez's famous Hotel Byblos), Ferrus (2010, inspired by Acier, ca. 1920), Petite Fleur (2009, flowery embellishments and the capitals of his redesigned Royal Romain), Glass Light (2012, a decoirative art nouveau type family based on Glass Light by Franz Paul Glass, 1912), Penstroxx (2009, 5 fonts that are based on the powerful, expressive Traits de plume (penstrokes) designed in Paris around 1930 by Alfred Latour), Liquoia A, B and C (2008, decorative scripts), Modernista (2008, an art nouveau headline face, based on an 1898 sample by Peter Schnorr), Ornata A, B, C, D, E, F and G (2008-2009: ornaments), Fleuraloha (2008), Floralissimo (2008: flowery ornaments), Frank Flowers (2011), Scrolls A (2010, penman's dingbats), Bacterio (2007), Alpha Bravo, Alpha Charlie, Alpha Echo (2006), Barracuda, Cacao (2005, fifties style), Cassandre Initials (2004, Elsner&Flake, after the 1927 original by Adolphe Mouron Cassandre), Contype, Fleurie (2005), Fleurons Two (2006), Fleurons Three (2006), Fleurons Four (2006), Fleurons Initials (2007), Fleurons Six (2008), Fleuron Labels (2008), HebrewLatino, Julius, Lunix (2006), MyHands, NewYorkerType (1985; extended in 2011 to NewYorker Plus), Venice Initials (2006, after a 15th century find, but Wiescher added about half of the caps), Ventoux, Vivian (2005), Woody.
• Pixel and/or futuristic: Alpha Fox (2007), Alpha Juliet (2010), Alpha papa (2010), Alpha Square (2010), Alpha Jazz (2010), Alpha Papa (2010, LED meets stencil).
• Stencil faces: Dripps (2010, handpainted, perhaps brutalist).
• Dingbats: Flourishes A (2010), Jingle Doodles (2010).

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William F. Capitain

Punchcutter, b. 1851, Southgate, UK. Picture. In 1865, he went to Flinsch in Frankfurt to study punchcutting with William Kirkwood. Then he left for Chicago, and became American. His later work was done while he lived in Bayonne, New Jersey. His typefaces, often quite ornamental and/or Victorian, were all done at Marder, Luse & Co, except Adtype (+Italic) (1903, ATF), Lithograph Shaded (1914, ATF), a typeface patented by ATF in 1916, and Alfereta (ca. 1897, Crescent Type Foundry). Google atent link. The Marder, Luse faces by date:

• 1877: Parallel Shaded.
• 1881: Ladies Hand Script.
• 1885: Critic, Fancy Grotesque, Octagon, Pencillings.
• 1886: Hiawatha, Parthenian, Roumanian, Spartan.
• 1887: Georgian, Utopian [image].
• 1888: Lithotint, Trinal 1, 2 and 3.
• 1889: Banquet, Caxton Old Style, Caxton Italic.
• 1890: Ebony.
• 1891: Diagonal Card Black.
• 1894: Caxton Old Style Bold.
• 1895: Circular Gothic, Circular Italic.

William W. Jackson

Prolific type designer, b. Camden, NJ, in 1847. He died in 1898 in Atlantic City, NJ. Many of his designs are late Victorian and art nouveau. As a punch cutter, engraver and type designer. he created typefaces for MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan, Barnhart Brothers & Spindler, Bruce Type Foundry, Central Type Foundry, Farmer Little & Co (later A.D. Farmer & Sons), Keystone Type Foundry, and ATF. His typefaces:

• At A.D. Farmer&Son: Abbey No. 2 (ca. 1886), Flirt (ca. 1886), Horizontal Shaded (1883), Ivy Script, Law Hand (1883), Lockwood (1893), Stationers Script (before 1890).
• At Keystone Type Foundry: Ancient Gothic (1891), Gothic Script (1891). Ancient Gothic was revived as Vasari NF (2011, Nick Curtis).
• At MacKellar, Smiths&Jordan: Aquatint (1878), Cabalistic (1879), Cadmus (1887), Campanile (1879), Cimmerian (1882), Circular Script (1883), Cruickshank (1886: for a digital version, see Cruickshank ML (2012, Tom Wallace)), Eastlake (1879), Edson (1881), Fancy Gothic (1883), Fresco (1883), Graphic Text (1883), Jenson (1890), Kitcat (1883), Koster Initials (1888), Medallic (1884), Mezzotype (1890), Monkish (1884), Myrtle Script (1885), Parsee (1888), Philadelphian Lining Gothic 6 (before 1896), Ripple Text (1878), Roundhead (1883), Ruskin (1880), Title Black Shaded (1881), Typo (1891), Unique Celtic (1889). See also this art nouveau face from 1886, this script from 1883 and these ornaments from 1979. Other unnamed faces at MacKellar: 1878, 1883, 1879, 1882, 1883, 1883, 1888, 1890, 1879.
• At Barnhart Brothers&Spindler: Grace Script (1889), Radial Italic (1885), Standard Script (1887), Umbra (1887).
• At Bruce Type Foundry: Ornamented No. 515 (1876), Ornamented No. 1063 (1879), Ornamented No. 1547 (1875). Images of some faces at MacKellar: 1875, 1878.
• At Dickinson Type Foundry: Phinney Script.
• At Central Foundry: Steelplate Script (ca.1889).

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Wilson Thomas

Designer (aka Funk King, b. Fort Knox, KY) who lives in Orlando, FL. He used FontStruct in 2008-2009 to make over 500 decorative fonts, and became one of the world's top experts on FontStruct, FontShop's on-line font editor. Dafont link. Fontspace link. Additional URL. Myfonts link. MyFonts foundry link. His creations include

• A Bit Eccentric.
• Alphabots
• Alphadings: On Hangers (2012, a commercial series that includes Pants on Hangers, etc), Dog Tag, Black Bird, Easter Egg Dots, Ser Egghead T. handlebar, Ovoidotta (now called Sniff), Play Book, BuddhaBuddha, Swizzle Sticks, Computer Backplate, Milky Way, Sprout, Football, Clapboard (for movie makers), Teed Off, Book Stack, Speaker Box, Ant Farm, Sound and Vision, Speaker Grill, Tom Tom, Caged Type, Conga Lounge, Spinal, Add Van, Frostruct, Picket Fence, Regatta, Cranestruct, Impossible Alphabet, Igloo Village, Mortar Board, Jack, Marionette, Golden Gate (+Short, +Solid), Crossed, Eff U ("the finger"!), Tall Big Top, Jackpot, Skulls&Cross Bones Redux, Crosshairs, Drama Club, Good Day Sunshine, Butterfly, Steps and Windows, Heartbroken, O Christmas Tree, Christmas Lights, Candle, Supper Time (alphadings of plates), Sands of Time (alphadings of hour glasses), Fishbones (commercial since 2012), Handy (alphading with hands), Hang Ten (feet alphadings) and High Five (hand alphadings), Armade and Ghost Ship Armada (ship alphadings), Cut Here (stitching alphadings), Schematic (electric circuit alphading), Masquerade, Mortar Board, Gear Bits, Gearswork, Hi-Lo Gears, Gears, Resistor, Gear Shift, Castle, Castle with Flags, Antique Keys, Rounded Keys, Pods, Piano Keys (+Alt, +Correct), Framework, Dixieland Jazz, Spats, and City of New Orleans (the last three are alphdings based on the same Victorian alphabet), Saturn, Piggy Bank, Voodoo Doll, Dice, Fist Bump.
• Antennas, Antennas Outline
• Antiquity
• Arcostellati, Arcostellato, Arcangolo, Arcontorno (2011): a blackletter family.
• Architect, Ruled, Gridworks, Blueprint (Solid, Dashed), Quadular (+Serif), Isometric Modified (+Light, +Bold Outline), Isometric (a 3d gridded family: +Basic Latin, +Basic Latin Lite, +More Latin, +Bold, +Black).
• Art deco: Arc Neuvo (rounded letters), Arc Nuevo (2012, commercial), Toneelschuur (based on the letterhead created for the Theatre Toneelschuur Haarlem), Shift (bold), Eye Spy (this says Peter Sellers), Mod Squad.
• Atomic.
• Avenue, Avenue Alphabet (white on black).
• Badge
• Ball and Chain (neat), Ball Bearings
• Balls and Bats
• Banjo (2012).
• Barber Shop
• Barcoded
• Basket
• Beachwear (horizontally striped)
• Beatnik
• Beltway.
• Birdseye
• Birdsteps
• Bitten
• Blackletter: Abbey
• Blanket Serif Caps, Blanket Sans Serif
• Block Inline Block
• Block Mosaic (great gridded letters)
• Blockheads
• Blood Sweat&Tears
• Bolla Fratturato (2011): outlined blackletter face.
• Bolt, Bolted
• Bon Mots.
• Break, Balance Beam, After Party (2010).
• Bubble Zwrap (2010).
• Build A Bridge
• Buzz Kill
• Carp Black, Carp Blanc
• Caterpillar, Tall Caterpillar.
• Cattails
• Chain Gang, Krazy King
• Channel
• Check Mate (checkered flag font).
• Cherry Bomb.
• Chubby
• Cinder Block (2010): a 3d face with texture thrown in.
• Circuit Board Solid, Circuit Board Outline, Circuit Board Outline Numbers, Circuit Board Simple, Micro Clean, Microcircuitz, Circuit Board Simple.
• Circus Maximus Outline
• Clean
• Cobblestones
• Compass (+Plain)
• Connected scripts: Cruise, Jet Cruise (2009), Notched Script (upright, connected), Rough Script (italic, connected), square Script (pixelish, connected).
• Computer Backplate, Milky Way.
• Contempole
• Crimped Pincushion (2010).
• Crispy Inline (classy)
• Crooked Marker, Marker
• Crop Circles
• Crownbar.
• Curls And Twirls
• Cut Here
• Daisies (nice rounded square letters with painted daisies)
• Decoscriptic, Decoish.
• Diamonds Are Forever, Liberty (dot amtrix fonts)
• Didactic fonts: Back to School.
• Digital, Digital Whimsy (gorgeous fonts in which the meat of the glyphs is made up of 0's and 1's), Digital Italics, Digital Non-italics.
• Dingbats: Digital Biz Bitz (2012), Capitalist Pictograms (2012), Kapitalist Kit (2011), Weather System (2011), Twelve Days of Christmas (2010), Learning For Business (2010), Calder Symbols (2010), Mad Aliens (2010), FSEmoticons, Maven Pictograms, Temp (weather dings), Sports Wave, Bullet Arrows
• Dinner at 8
• Diode
• Directional
• Ditier Cycles (2010): a grunge version of J. Hughes's Dirt Cycles.
• Disco Ball, Disco Salvation.
• Doggie Tracks (2010).
• Dollars and Cents.
• Domestic Bliss (+Solid), Blissful Hearts (Valentine's Day alphadings).
• Domino, Dominodot
• Dot matrix fonts: Carousel (2011), Corsivo Punti (2011), Wisp (2011), Amusement (2011), Menagerie (2011), Junk (2011), Iphont (white on black dot matrix face), Lyrical (dot matrix script), Petits Pois, Elli, Industrial Magic, Wind Chime, Domestic Bliss (2010, +Serif, +Sans Serif), Ying Yang (2009)
• Double Decker
• Eau de Kerning.
• Efficiency (2010).
• Eiffel family: mechanical.
• Emergency
• eq Regular, eq Radio Waves, eq Tight.
• Erector Set (2010).
• Extension Cord
• Fairy Tale (curly)
• Fantastic
• Fast Cars, Fast Lane, Fast Forward
• Fifty Famous Fairy Tales (bi-lined and bejeweled)
• Flair Ornate, Flaired Script, Flair, Flaired
• Floor Plan
• Flash (gridded face)
• Folk Art (wooden plank simulation)
• Font Troll
• Fractal, Wireframe, Hemisphere, Origami (now Mummification): experiments in glyph partitioning.
• Funk, Funky palms
• Gemstone (letters in a mosaic)
• Glyphs made from broken objects: Broken Combs, Broken Glasses
• GI Joe
• Grain
• Graphont
• Grid1, Grid2, Pas De Grille Pli Isométrique (+Plombé), Grille Noir Pli Isométrique (+Plombé), Grille Intrépide Pli Isométrique (+Plombé), Grille Facile Pli Isométrique (+Plombé).
• Grunge faces: Feather (2010).
• Gummy (2010).
• Happily Ever After (2010).
• Heath Robinson (gorgeous mechanical font).
• Hexcavated (2010).
• High Anxiety.
• High Wire (dotted).
• Honeycomb Black
• Horizontally Phased (like IBM logo from afar), Vertically Phased, Field Goal.
• Hot Diggity Dog (2010): a monoline rounded sans.
• Void.
• Inline: Hi-Fi Deco, Track (+Filled), Crispy Inline
• Imperfect Optical Experiment.
• Ironside, Ironworks.
• Isomixed (+Inline, +Inverted, +Light, +Inline Light), Isomixerd Moire (nine textured styles).
• Jacks (2010): a stitching font.
• Jeannie
• Jelly Bean series: I's, Wide, O's, Split
• Jetsons
• Jolly Swash 9+Tall, +Tall Wide Tail).
• Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope Solid
• Kitchen tile faces: MadisonAveAvenue (2010), Edgar Fernhout (2012).
• Lace
• Ladder
• Last Days Of Summer, Endless Summer, Beach.
• Lattice, Lattice Black
• Lean
• Leaves
• l-e-display
• Little Miss Muffet.
• Loom.
• Love, Love Letters
• Martini
• Metroliner and Metroliner Deluxe.
• MICR fonts: Wedge Solid.
• Mike
• Mitered, Zietgeist: striped 3d faces.
• Modal.
• Modern Ancient (chiseled font imitation)
• Molecular (+Complex, +Complex 1), Dense Molecular Complex (1 through 5), Molecular Architecture, Tessellation 1 (+Continuous), Tessellation 2.
• Monkey Bars.
• Montreal (+Italics)
• Monumental, Less Monumental,
• Mortar Booted (+Thick, Separated, Mission, Booted Mission).
• Mouthy
• Music fonts: Fret Full (2010), Fret Station (2010).
• MyBlock
• Necklace
• Ninja.
• Oblique
• Octovision Remix
• Open&Shuttered Day, Open&Shuttered Night
• Oriental simulation/look: Shoji Pixel, Shoji Stage&Screen Soapbox, Chinese Democracy, Asian Influence.
• Origami City (2010): formerly Simply Elevated Black. Simple Elevation (2012) is in the same family.
• Outline Habitat
• Pallina (2010, + Stampino, +Diluente).
• Palm, Tall Palm
• Paperclip faces: Neue Werner Paperclip (2012).
• Patterns
• Pavers
• Piccadilly (2010).
• Pipes
• Pisa.
• Pixel Dust, Pixels Dusted
• Plaid
• Pop Arc (2010). In the same style: Conveyor Belt, Milk Bottle, Cookie Cutter, Erector Set (2010).
• Popsicle Sticks (nice vertically striped glyphs).
• Playbook (2010).
• Power Grid, Power Gridlocked
• Process This (2010) and Flowcahrt (2010): based on graphs of computer programs.
• Pump Boys (2010).
• Puzzle
• Quagmire (2010)
• Radio Waves
• Razorback Block
• Receipt (2012): a dot matrix face.
• Regular Habitat
• Relativity
• Remixintag (2011, a clone of Wallachia by Intaglio).
• Repeat
• Ribbodini (2010, ribbon font).
• Riveted
• Road Trip
• Satellite
• Sausalito Nautica (2011).
• Say What? (Exaggerated ink trap face)
• Scaffoldini (2010): a 3d gridded face. Followed by Scaffoldini Senza Griglia (2010), Scaffoldini Ascendente Contrario SG, Scaffoldini Ascendente Senza Griglia, Scaffoldini Contrario Senza Griglia, Scaffoldini Ascendente, Scaffoldini Contrario, and Scaffoldini Ascendente Contrario, Scaffoldini Prospettico (+Contrario, +SG).
• Scichosis.
• Scripts: Diode (+Dioded, Diodoubled, Diodocked, Diodedocked, Diodiced), Scherzando, Fontstitution, Rough Script, Scriptilicious, Whipped Cream, 45 Degrees.
• Skulls, Skully
• Slice N dice
• Skyscraper.
• Small Wonder, Small World
• Snowflake (2010).
• Soap.
• Sole
• Soma (2009): 3d letters mades from cubes.
• Spooky Eyeballs (2009).
• Squiggles
• Stained Glass, Stained with Cross
• Starburst
• Stencil fonts: GI Joe, Kid's Stencil (white on black), Tri-Fold, Tri-Fold Cut, Tri-Fold Rounded, Stencil, Stencil Plate, Stencil Face, Semi Stencil, Psuedo Stencil, Psychedelic Stencil
• Stitching fonts: Sampler
• T-Shirts on a Clothesline
• Swamp Frog and Tadpole: artsy fat letters
• Swamp Funk, Mojo (curly letters)
• Swatches.
• Tabular
• Tall Habitat
• Techno look: Technified, Slick, Tangential (2010).
• Tanqueray (2010): octagonal face.
• Teepee (wood look)
• Tennis themed: Racket, Net Ball, World Cup.
• Tetrominoes Black (2010): a 3d face cloned from TP2 Marriott's Tetrominoes.
• Textile
• Texture fonts: Global (2011, globes), SS Half Tone (One, Two, Three), SS Watermark, SS Silk Screen (2010). These brush texture faces were cloned from Swifted Strokes by Mike Lee. Tramarada (2011) has a stunning woven look.
• Thalistic.
• The Adventure of the Dancing Men (2011, dingbats).
• The Big Top
• The Real McCoy
• Tiki.
• Time
• Timpani, Timpaniless, Timpaniblok, Alien Crop Circles (outer space face).
• Toothpaste (2011): imitating oozing toothpaste.
• Trapezoidot, Zoidot, Dotz (dotted faces).
• Upright connected scripts: Madie (2009)
• Valentine's fonts: Hearts and Flowers, Hearts and Arrows, Keys to your Heart, Bed of Hearts
• Vapors and Mirage: evaporating glyphs.
• Vibration (2010). This was followed by Echo (2010).
• Victorian fonts: Alouette, Swamp Funk
• Void.
• Waveform
• WPA Household Arts Stripes, WPA Household Arts Chex, WPA Household Arts (poster stencil face)
• Wee The People, Small World.
• Werner Paperclip (2009), Paperclip (2010): paperclip faces after a 1974 original by Ad Werner.
• Western fonts: Bolo (2010), Bow Tie (2010), Bowl (2010), Western Doodle, Sparky, Buckaroo, Diamond Buckaroo, Saloon and Desert Rose. Western style alphadings: Cart Before The Horse, Wagon Train
• Weird
• White on black faces: Tabs, Dot Keys, Rounded Keys, Block Keys, Keys.
• Wiggles
• Wim Crouwel-related fonts: Unknown Crouwel #1, Edgar Fernhout (a Wim Crouwel tribute font in kitchen tile style taken from a 1963 poster), Kalender 1976 Letters (octagonal based on a Wim Crouwel calendar from 1976), Kalender 1976, Brusselmans (based on a Wim Crouwel poster), Rabobank (based on a Wim Crouwel poster), Brabant (based on a Wim Crouwel poster)
• Woodcut, Woodcut Recut, Woodcut Banjo.
• Woven.
• Wrenched
• Yay Team
• Zebeast (Zebra-striped letters)
• Zodiac Block